four o'clock precisely
Now eight o'clock is dangerous to me at a spot three hundred miles from Paris , in that old deserted Château de Halingre , but nowhere else . The only clock that can strike the threatening hour is down there , under lock and key , a prisoner ! '' She reached Paris that evening . On the morning of the 5th she went out and bought a jet necklace , which she reduced to seventy-five beads , put on a blue gown and a toque with red leaves and , at four o'clock precisely , entered the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont . Her heart was throbbing violently . This time she was alone ; and how acutely she now felt the strength of that support which , from unreflecting fear rather than any reasonable motive , she had thrust aside ! She looked around her , almost hoping to see him .