four in the afternoon
We tried not to smile at each other , but we could n't quite help it . The Gay Lady went away to her room . I heard her close the blinds on the side that looked off toward the barn , and , glancing up , saw that she had turned down the slats tightly . * * * * * I think it must have been well on toward four in the afternoon when the white sunbonnet at last disappeared through the gap in the hedge . The Skeptic came back up the garden path at the pace of an escaping convict , and went tearing up the stairs to his room . I heard him splashing like a seal in his bath . Presently he came out , freshly attired and went away down the road , in the opposite direction from that in which lay the house beyond the hedge .