midnight
`` Do n't let him go into the nursery ! '' she shouted . The hours blurred into a nightmare . The doctor arrived just before midnight and within a half-hour had lanced the wound . He left at two after giving her the addresses of two nurses to call up and promising to return at half past six . It was blood-poisoning . At four , leaving Hilda by the bedside , she went to her room , and slipping with a shudder out of her evening dress , kicked it into a corner .