about three o'clock in the afternoon
For the Clairville now inhabiting the manor was not only reduced in purse and delicate in health but suspiciously weak in intellect . When Ringfield woke on the Monday following his inaugural service , the sun was shining brightly into his room at Poussette 's , and it is a fact that in his mind he saw a picture of a dazzling fan of foamy white feathers waving proudly in that sunlight . It really was the bird and not the lady that intercepted other and more pertinent reflections having to do with his future movements . He loitered about all morning , fished , lunched with his guide , made a pencil sketch of the Fall , and then about three o'clock in the afternoon walked out to Lac Calvaire . He neared the house ; at first he saw no one , it was the middle-day siesta . No peacock was visible , no lady . Then he saw a face at a window and it stared at him .