two o'clock
The book opened at `` Macromicros , '' where a brilliant verbena was crushed between the leaves , and delicate undulating pencil-lines enclosed the passage beginning , -- `` O woman , woman , with face so pale ! Pale woman , weaving away A frustrate life at a lifeless loom . '' Slowly the hours wore away , and at noon Elsie 's body was placed in the coffin and left on a table in the room opposite the parlor . It was two o'clock when Dr. Grey came up the steps , looking more fatigued than Salome had ever seen him . He sat down beside her on the gallery , and sighed as he caught a glimpse of the men who were bricking up the grave that yawned on the right hand side of the lawn . `` Where is Mrs. Gerome ? '' `` In the parlor .