two o'clock
At first the circumstances of the room , and the fear lest Miss Trelawny should return unexpectedly and find me reading the book , disturbed me somewhat . For we had arranged amongst us , before Doctor Winchester had gone home , that she was not to be brought into the range of the coming investigation . We considered that there might be some shock to a woman 's mind in matters of apparent mystery ; and further , that she , being Mr. Trelawny 's daughter , might be placed in a difficult position with him afterward if she took part in , or even had a personal knowledge of , the disregarding of his expressed wishes . But when I remembered that she did not come on nursing duty till two o'clock , the fear of interruption passed away . I had still nearly three house before me . Nurse Kennedy sat in her chair by the bedside , patient and alert . A clock ticked on the landing ; other clocks in the house ticked ; the life of the city without manifested itself in the distant hum , now and again swelling into a roar as a breeze floating westward took the concourse of sounds with it .