ten o’clock
The fidgets had already begun for him , poor fellow ; and as we sat in his study with our cigars after dinner he wandered to the door whenever he heard the sound of the Doctor 's wheels . Miss Ambient , who shared this apartment with us , gave me at such moments significant glances ; she had before rejoining us gone upstairs to ask about the child . His mother and his nurse gave a fair report , but Miss Ambient found his fever high and his symptoms very grave . The Doctor came at ten o'clock , and I went to bed after hearing from Mark that he saw no present cause for alarm . He had made every provision for the night and was to return early in the morning . I quitted my room as eight struck the next day and when I came downstairs saw , through the open door of the house , Mrs. Ambient standing at the front gate of the grounds in colloquy with Mackintosh . She wore a white dressing-gown , but her shining hair was carefully tucked away in its net , and in the morning freshness , after a night of watching , she looked as much `` the type of the lady '' as her sister-in-law had described her .