eight in the morning
As for medicine , he will not take it . For the spray he is grateful . His beautiful eyes open gloriously when a breath has come without that hard tugging for it . At eight in the morning the man and the woman eat -- a cup of coffee and a nubbin of bread . The mother of Esther arrives . She too is terrified by the ordeal through which the child is passing . `` Go to the head-quarters , David , '' she says .