Four o'clock
The feeling returned to her on the Thursday afternoon , when she was waiting for Charmian 's arrival in her writing-room . Charmian was due at Charing Cross at three-twenty-five . She ought to be in Berkeley Square about four , unless the train was very crowded , and there was a long delay at the Customs . Four o'clock chimed from the Dresden china clock on the mantelpiece , and she had not arrived . Mrs. Mansfield was conscious of a restlessness almost amounting to nervousness . She got up from her chair , laid down the book she had been reading , and moved slowly about the room . How would Charmian receive the news that Claude Heath was to dine with them that night ?