ten o'clock
She was a slender narrow-hipped woman and the child was large , but the doctor was feverishly strong . He worked desperately and the woman , who was frightened , groaned and struggled . Her husband kept coming in and going out of the room and two neighbor women appeared and stood silently about waiting to be of service . It was past ten o'clock when everything was done and the doctor was ready to depart for town . The farmer hitched his horse and brought it to the door and the doctor drove off feeling strangely weak and at the same time strong . How simple now seemed the thing he had yet to do . Perhaps when he got home his daughter would have gone to bed but he would ask her to get up and come into the office .