about seven o'clock
`` Go , dress yourself , '' said I , `` and come with me to the Grange . '' `` I will , if you can give me some minutes to get a neighbour to take charge of George and Anne . '' And away she went to get this family arrangement completed , while I sat panting with desire to free my friend from the agony of his condition . It was about seven o'clock of that same evening that Mrs. Gourlay and I reached the Moated Grange . I got her shown into an ante-room , to wait the issue of my interview with Graeme . It happened that the doctor and he were together , and it even seemed as if they were converging towards a medium state of confidence . I could observe from the looks of the victim that he had been so far at least drawn into a recital of facts -LRB- the nature of which it was not difficult for me to conjecture -RRB- , for I heard the word Gourlay fall from his lips , as the last of a sentence which my entry had cut short .