five o'clock in the afternoon
And really , during those days , I hardly thought of her . I thought only of the torrid heat to be avoided , of the water skins which , if you wished to drink fresh water , had to be left for an hour in a cleft in the rocks ; of the intense joy which seized you when you raised to your lips a leather goblet brimming with that life-saving water ... . I can say this with authority , with good authority , indeed ; passion , spiritual or physical , is a thing for those who have eaten and drunk and rested . It was five o'clock in the afternoon . The frightful heat was slackening . We had left a kind of rocky crevice where we had had a little nap . Seated on a huge rock , we were watching the reddening west .