about four o'clock in the afternoon
_ Mais oui ! _ ' he told us . Simone was terrified to cross the wretched bridge , with the water swirling beneath , and we left her to go back to the Inn , while the landlord 's son came with me . It was about four o'clock in the afternoon , and was a most extraordinary day , for now it began to thunder and lighten . '' `` I wonder you were not afraid . '' `` I am never afraid -- I tell you , it suited me . There was still some furniture in the roofed part of the inner court , and in the two great towers which flank the main building -- but in that the roof was off , but the view from the windows when we crept along to them across the broken floor was too superb , straight out to the ocean , the waves thundering at the base .