two o'clock in the afternoon
As sure as your name 's John Eames , that foolish fellow has gone off with her . '' `` What , Cradell ? I do n't believe it . '' `` She went out of this house at two o'clock in the afternoon , and has never been back since . '' That , certainly , was only four hours from the present time , and such an absence from home in the middle of the day was but weak evidence on which to charge a married woman with the great sin of running off with a lover . This Amelia felt , and therefore she went on to explain . `` He 's there upstairs in the drawing-room , the very picture of disconsolateness . ''