five o'clock
Certain songs and pieces of music he put together in a pile , the rest he tore across and threw into a corner . He would have no need of these amusements now . Cultivation of the fine arts is not encouraged in the political prisons . At five o'clock Arithelli entered the room , her clothes put on carelessly , the grey pallor of intense weariness upon her face . She had been working early and late during the past two days , and the thought of the missing letter worried her from time to time . Sometimes she felt almost certain that she had dropped it in changing from her circus clothes , and that it had been appropriated out of curiosity by one of the women who shared the dressing-room . As it was written in English , they would probably throw it away at once in disgust , annoyed at being deprived of the excitement of a romance or scandal .