about nine o'clock in the evening
`` I will call this evening to make inquiry , '' said Lashmar , and thereupon left the house . Reaching his hotel at Hollingford , he ordered a meal and ate heartily . Then he stepped over to the office of the Express , and made known to Breakspeare the fact of Lady Ogram 's illness ; they discussed the probabilities with much freedom , Breakspeare remarking how sad it would be if Lady Ogram so soon followed her old enemy . At about nine o'clock in the evening , Dyce inquired at Rivenoak lodge : he learnt that there was still no change whatever in the patient 's condition ; Dr. Baldwin remained in the house . In spite of his anxious thoughts , Dyce slept particularly well . Immediately after breakfast , he drove again to Rivenoak , and had no sooner alighted from the cab than he saw that the blinds were down at the lodge windows . Lady Ogram , he learnt , had died between two and three o'clock .