twenty past four
If she had had an uneasy conscience in the matter -LRB- and she said to herself that there was no occasion for one -RRB- , it would have acquitted her . Nobody could say she was n't playing the game . And then it struck her that she had better go down at once and see Essy 's baby . It was only five and twenty past four . The Vicar was right . Rowcliffe did not want to be seen or heard of at the Vicarage . He did not want to see or hear of the Vicarage or of Gwenda Cartaret again .