About five o'clock
Whichever way he went his thoughts went the same way as yesterday . The images were , if anything , more crowded and more horrible ; but they had lost their hold . He was tired of looking at them . About five o'clock he turned abruptly and went back to the village the same way by which he came . And as he swung down the hill road in sight of Renton , suddenly there was a great clearance in his soul . When he went into the cottage he found Veronica there waiting for him . She sat with her hands lying in her lap , and she had the same look he had seen when she was in the train .