half past seven
She beckoned to them , and they followed her into a room on the same floor , where she told them what she knew , heedless of the tears coursing ceaselessly down her cheeks . It seemed that Mrs. Garvin had had a premonition which she had not wholly confided to the rector . She had believed her husband never would come back ; and early in the morning , in spite of all that Mrs. Breitmann could do , had insisted at intervals upon running downstairs and scanning the street . At half past seven Dr. Jarvis had come and himself carried down the child and put him in the back of his automobile . The doctor had had a nurse with him , and had begged the mother to accompany them to the hospital , saying that he would send her back . But she would not be persuaded to leave the house . The doctor could not wait , and had finally gone off with little .