a quarter past two
And incidentally , she revealed to him her struggling , starving , wistful soul that no one else had ever discovered . She never talked to him of her love affair , but she dwelt vaguely on the virtues of duty and loyalty and self-sacrifice . The facts in the case were supplied by Mrs. Gusty . Hinton looked at his watch again , and groaned when he found it was only a quarter past two . Feeling his way cautiously along the porch and down the steps , he moved idly about the yard . He could not distinguish Menelaus from Paris now , and Helen of Troy was no longer to be recognized . At long intervals a vehicle rattled past , leaving a cloud of dust behind .