about four o'clock
All that is only an outside circumstance to me , comparatively of little moment . But to be the wife of a man I despise ! '' Then she got up and left the room . A month passed by before the old man returned to the subject , which he did seated in the same room , at the same hour of the day , -- at about four o'clock , when the dinner things had been removed . `` Isabel , '' he said , `` I can not help myself . '' `` As to what , Uncle Indefer ? '' She knew very well what was the matter in which , as he said , he could not help himself .