About midnight
She spoke very warmly to her sister-in-law of your having come to see her , and said she had promised you to wait a little before she took any step . Then he went out to the laboratory , and there , it is supposed , he was overcome by a fit of acute depression -- the revolver was in his drawer -- he scrawled the two words that were found -- and you know the rest . Two people on the farm heard the shot -- but it was taken as fired by the night watcher in a field beyond , which was full of young pheasants . About midnight Mrs. Betts went out to bring him in -- her sister-in-law having gone up to bed . She never came back again -- no one heard a sound -- and they were not discovered till the morning . How long she was alone with him before she killed herself can not even be guessed . '' Marcia 's trembling fingers fumbled at the bosom of her dress .