five o'clock in the morning on the 4th of August,
1900
Well , it was that sort of shuddering that came over Florence at the thought that she had surrendered to such a low fellow . I do n't know that she need have shuddered . It was her footling old uncle 's work ; he ought never to have taken those two round the world together and shut himself up in his cabin for the greater part of the time . Anyhow , I am convinced that the sight of Mr Bagshawe and the thought that Mr Bagshawe -- for she knew that unpleasant and toadlike personality -- the thought that Mr Bagshawe would almost certainly reveal to me that he had caught her coming out of Jimmy 's bedroom at five o'clock in the morning on the 4th of August , 1900 -- that was the determining influence in her suicide . And no doubt the effect of the date was too much for her superstitious personality . She had been born on the 4th of August ; she had started to go round the world on the 4th of August ; she had become a low fellow 's mistress on the 4th of August . On the same day of the year she had married me ; on that 4th she had lost Edward 's love , and Bagshawe had appeared like a sinister omen -- like a grin on the face of Fate .