four o'clock
The women there , I am sure , will protect you , and send you back to England . I only want two Napoleons ; take all the rest , you will require them . If I am not back by to-night , set off for Flushing to-morrow morning . '' O'Brien waited some time longer , talking with me , and it then being past four o'clock , he shook me by the hand , and , without speaking , left the wood . I never felt miserable during the whole time since we were first put into prison at Toulon , till that moment , and , when he was a hundred yards off , I knelt down and prayed . He had been absent two hours , and it was quite dusk , when I heard a noise at a distance : it advanced every moment nearer and nearer . On a sudden , I heard a rustling of the bushes , and hastened under the blanket , which was covered with snow , in hopes that they might not perceive the entrance ; but I was hardly there before in dashed after me an enormous wolf .