ten o'clock
`` He had suffered fearfully from his head of late . I sent for the doctor at once . But nothing relieved him . From ten o'clock he got worse and worse , and at four he was gone . He always wished to die suddenly , and be spared a lingering illness . He has been depressed of late , but this morning , early , he woke up quite brightly ; and last night he was wonderfully better . After the children had gone to bed , he read aloud to me as he used to do in the old days ; and he looked so much more like his old self again that I thought a happier time was coming .