ten o’clock
I said to Mark that , evidently , I had better leave them in the morning ; to which he replied that , on the contrary , if he was to pass the next days in the fidgets , my company would be an extreme relief to him . The fidgets had already begun for him , poor fellow ; and as we sat in his study with our cigars after dinner , he wandered to the door whenever he heard the sound of the doctor 's wheels . Miss Ambient , who shared this apartment with us , gave me at such moments significant glances ; she had gone upstairs before rejoining us to ask after the child His mother and his nurse gave a tolerable account of him ; but Miss Ambient found his fever high and his symptoms very grave . The doctor came at ten o'clock , and I went to bed after hearing from Mark that he saw no present cause for alarm . He had made every provision for the night , and was to return early in the morning . I quitted my room at eight o'clock the next day , and , as I came downstairs , saw , through the open door of the house , Mrs. Ambient standing at the front gate of the grounds , in colloquy with the physician . She wore a white dressing-gown , but her shining hair was carefully tucked away in its net , and in the freshness of the morning , after a night of watching , she looked as much `` the type of the lady '' as her sister-in-law had described her .