"I can't," she said. "I don't know."
The truth of her reply impressed him. He looked at her and wondered that she should be fully dressed.
"Why are you dressed?" he asked.
She was puzzled.
"Why not? I don't think any one had gone to bed."
"But it must be very late. I supposed it was the same time—half-past two."
She started to cross the room. She laughed nervously.
"It isn't eleven."
He recalled his interminable anticipation among the shadows of the old room.
"I've watched there only a little more than an hour!"