Quarter past four
Through him went the feeling , `` This is not my woman . '' When , after a long sleep , he awoke and came fully to himself , with that click of awakeness which is the end , the first shades were closing on the afternoon . He got up and reached for his watch . `` Quarter past four , '' he said . Her eyes stretched wide with surprise as she looked at him . But she said nothing . The same strange and wide , perhaps insatiable child-like curiosity was in her eyes as she watched him .