about six o'clock
So that night went slowly by . The dogs were still in the room , whining from time to time , as Mr. Chiffinch told me afterwards -- -LRB- for it was thought better that I myself , as one so deeply involved in what had lately passed should not be present -RRB- -- and one of the little dogs sought repeatedly to leap upon the bed , but was prevented ; and at last was carried away , crying . Again and again first one Bishop and then another begged him to receive the sacrament ; but he would not : so they prayed by him instead , which was all they could do . At about six o'clock , when dawn came , he begged that the curtains of his bed might be drawn back yet further , and the windows opened , that he might see daylight again and breathe the fresh air : and this was done . Then , at the chiming of the hour by the clocks in the room , he remembered that one of them , which was an eight-day one , should be wound up , for it was a Friday on which it was always wound . And this too was done . At seven o'clock breathlessness came on him again , and he was compelled to sit up in bed , with his brother 's arm about him on one side , and a physician 's upon the other .