about two
o’clock in the afternoon
I returned home disgusted . For two whole days I did not go near The Mere . On the third day I went up , hoping that the horrid Colonel would be gone . It was beginning to snow when I left The Shallows at about two o'clock in the afternoon , and Mrs. Balk foretold a heavy storm , and bade me not be late returning . The black winter darkness in the sky deepened as I approached The Mere . I was ushered again into the billiard-room . Agnes was marking , as upon the previous occasion , but two days had worked a sad difference in her face .