two o'clock
`` She is dead , '' he announced , very gravely and simply . The hunchback shivered . Captain Runacles neither spoke nor stirred in his chair . `` A man-child was born at two o'clock . He is alive : his mother died two hours later . '' Captain Barker shivered again , plucked aimlessly at a rosette in the window-cushion , and stole a quick glance at his comrade 's back . Then , putting a finger to his lip , he slid down to the floor and lurched across to the Doctor .