four o’clock
When he had seated her in a chair , and she was able to speak , he said : `` It was I who took the despatch you received to the telegraph office yesterday , at half-past ten o'clock . He was so happy , so full of hope ! He was forming plans for the future -- a year , two years of life . And this morning , at four o'clock , he had the first attack , and he sent for me . He saw at once that he was doomed , but he expected to last until six o'clock , to live long enough to see you again . But the disease progressed too rapidly . He described its progress to me , minute by minute , like a professor in the dissecting room .