about six o'clock
With all its pathos it was a look that frightened her . Neither he nor his wife said a word about Rodney Lanyon . She was not even sure , now , that they had recognised him . They stayed with her all that afternoon ; for their time , they said , was getting short ; and when , about six o'clock , Milly got up to go she took Agatha aside and said that , if Agatha did n't mind , she would leave Harding with her for a little while . She knew he wanted to talk to her . Agatha proposed that they should walk up the hill through the wood . They went in a curious silence and constraint ; and it was not until they had got into the wood and were shut up in it together that he spoke .