four o'clock in the afternoon
It was partly the oddness of the face and head , coming on the top of all that symmetry , that perfection , that made the total effect of her so bewildering . I ca n't find words for the total effect -LRB- I do n't know that you ever got it all at once , and I certainly did n't get it then -RRB- , and if I were to tell you that what struck me first about her was something perverse and wilful and defiant , this would be misleading . She smiled in her mature , perfunctory manner as she took the chair I gave her . She cast out her muff over my writing-table , and flung back the furs that covered her breast and shoulders , as if she had come to stay , as if it were four o'clock in the afternoon and I had asked her to tea for the first time . I remember saying , `` That 's right . I 'm afraid this room is a bit warm , is n't it ? '' -- as if she had done something uninvited and a little unexpected , and I wished to reassure her .