eight o'clock
Meantime matters were really beginning to look dark for Miss Catheron . The superintendent of the district , Mr. Ferrick , was filling his note-book with very ominous information . She had loved Sir Victor -- she had hated Sir Victor 's wife -- they had led a cat-and-dog life from the first -- an hour before the murder they had had a violent quarrel -- Lady Catheron had threatened to make her husband turn her out of the house on the morrow . At eight o'clock , Jane Pool had left the nursery with the baby , my lady peacefully asleep in her chair -- the Eastern poniard on the table . At half-past eight , returning to arouse my lady , she had encountered Miss Inez coming out of the nursery , and Miss Inez had ordered her sharply away , telling her my lady was still asleep . A quarter of nine , Ellen , the maid , going to the room , found my lady stone dead , stabbed through the heart . Miss Inez , when summoned by Hooper , is ghastly pale at first , and hardly seems to know what she is doing or saying .