four o’clock
The relief was slow to come , the efficacy less than before . When Pascal revived , large tears stood in his eyes . He did not speak now , he wept . Presently , looking at the clock with his darkening vision , he said : `` My friend , I shall die at four o'clock ; I shall not see her . '' And as his young colleague , in order to divert his thoughts , declared , in spite of appearances , that the end was not so near , Pascal , again becoming enthusiastic , wished to give him a last lesson , based on direct observation . He had , as it happened , attended several cases similar to his own , and he remembered especially to have dissected at the hospital the heart of a poor old man affected with sclerosis . `` I can see it -- my heart .