four o'clock in the afternoon
He plunged his hands into his pockets and stood thinking for many minutes . He said , half aloud , finally , -- `` Not in my time , perhaps . But it will come , it will come . '' When Betty awoke at four o'clock in the afternoon , she discovered with some surprise that she had slept soundly for eleven hours . Her head was a trifle heavy , but after her bath she felt so fresh again that the previous day and night seemed like a very long and very ugly dream . She reflected that if she had not written to Burleigh before she went to bed she certainly should do so now . He still seemed the one safeguard for the future ; she had convinced herself that with her capacity for violent emotion and nervous exaltation , her head was not to be trusted .