About midday
The temptation was to return into the house and leave others to spread the news ; there would be workmen in the quarry in less than an hour . Yet he did not do this , but hurried past his own door to the house of a doctor not a hundred yards away . Him he called forth ... . About midday a covered burden was brought in a cart to Banbrigg ; the cart stopped before the Hoods ' house , and two men , lifting the burden , carried it through the gate and to the door . Mrs. Hood had already opened to them , and stood with her face half-hidden . The burden was taken into the parlour , and placed upon the couch . The outline was that of a man 's form .