four o'clock
`` How is your patient -- asleep , I think ? '' he said , with an attempt at cheerfulness in his tone . `` He 's gone very deep , sir , '' said Mrs. Abel . `` He went off gradual between three and four o'clock . Would you please to go and look at him ? I thought it no harm to leave him . My man 's gone afield , and the little girl 's seeing to the kettles . ''