seven o’clock
The ossification had proceeded with very unusual rapidity ; no sign of it had been discovered a month before , and the adhesion had only been observed during the three previous days . Independently of the phthisis , the patient was suspected of aneurism of the aorta ; but on this point the osseous symptoms rendered an exact diagnosis impossible . It was the opinion of both physicians that M. Valdemar would die about midnight on the morrow -LRB- Sunday -RRB- . It was then seven o'clock on Saturday evening . On quitting the invalid 's bed-side to hold conversation with myself , Doctors D -- and F -- had bidden him a final farewell . It had not been their intention to return ; but , at my request , they agreed to look in upon the patient about ten the next night . When they had gone , I spoke freely with M. Valdemar on the subject of his approaching dissolution , as well as , more particularly , of the experiment proposed .