four o'clock in the afternoon
Where from ? '' `` From London . He left Paris a month ago for London to do business , and stayed at the Hotel Charing Cross -- I think you call it -- for five days . On the sixth he went out of the hotel at four o'clock in the afternoon , and has never been seen or heard of since . '' `` And that was a month ago , mademoiselle ? '' I remarked , surprised at her story . `` Nearly , '' was her answer .