four o'clock
He might have dwelt in some city a thousand miles removed from Paris , for all she knew of his associates or habits , and this one fact was eloquent of the gulf that yawned between his home and his pursuits . After breakfast , Joan insisted on beginning work in the Cathedral . Felix and Beaumanoir accompanied her there in a closed carriage , and the cool interior of the heavy , ugly structure was not ungrateful in the midday heat . At four o'clock Joan was ready to don a riding-habit that fitted marvelously well considering that the maker had never set eyes on the wearer till he brought the costume to the palace . At five she and Alec and Beaumanoir went for a ride on the outskirts of the town . The men took her to a very fine turfed avenue that wound through three miles of woodland . At the close of a glorious canter a turn in the path revealed a rather pretty chateau situated on a gentle slope of lawns and gardens rising from the northern shore of a large lake .