About three o'clock
I have sinned against you , Arthur , but I will sin no more . Good-bye , my dear , good-bye . '' And she laid her throbbing head upon the rail of the verandah , and wept bitterly . About three o'clock that afternoon Arthur returned to the Quinta , having lunched on board the _ Roman _ . He found Mildred sitting in her favourite place on the museum verandah . She was very pale , and , if he had watched her , he would have seen that she was trembling all over , but he did not observe her particularly . `` Well , '' he said , `` it is all nonsense about half the crew being drowned ; only one man was killed , by the fall of a spar , poor chap .