four o'clock
`` Now I shall leave you alone . In an hour I will send Seraphine to you . '' Then he left her . At four o'clock Mrs. Walters came in with an armful of flowers from Christopher and the two women talked of indifferent things over their tea . Then they went for a drive in the park and Penelope returned blooming like a lovely rose ; but not one word did she breathe of her deeper thoughts . Seraphine waited . Seven o'clock !