three o’clock
Madame Steno . '' And , in spite of her uneasiness , the wicked woman trembled with delight at the thought of her work . When Maud Gorka left the house on the Rue Leopardi she walked on at first rapidly , blindly , without seeing , without hearing anything , like a wounded animal which runs through the thicket to escape danger , to escape its wounds , to escape itself . It was a little more than half-past three o'clock when the unhappy woman hastened from the studio , unable to bear near her the presence of Lydia Maitland , of that sinister worker of vengeance who had so cruelly revealed to her , with such indisputable proofs , the atrocious affair , the long , the infamous , the inexpiable treason . It was almost six o'clock before Maud Gorka really regained consciousness . A very common occurrence aroused her from the somnambulism of suffering in which she had wandered for two hours . The storm which had threatened since noon at length broke .