four o'clock in the afternoon
It contained only these words : `` My mother -- obtain from your daughter her pardon for the regent . '' Helene , implored by the superior , grew paler than ever at that name , but she answered : `` Yes , my mother , I forgive him . But it is because I go to rejoin him whom he killed . '' At four o'clock in the afternoon she breathed her last . She asked to be buried at the spot where Gaston used to untie the boat with which he came to visit her ; and her last wishes were complied with . And there she sleeps beneath the sod , pure as the flowers that blossom over her grave : and like them , broken by the cruel gusts that sweep the delicate blossoms so mercilessly down , and wither them with a breath . -LSB- Transcriber 's Note : The following typographical errors , present in the original text , have been corrected .