nine o’clock
He at once set to work on her . He took the other patient up in his arms and carried her into another room , where he told her that Cousin Fanny was a desperately ill woman . `` She was actually dying then , sir , '' he said to me , `` and she died that night . When she arrived at the place the night before , which was not until after nine o'clock , she had gone to the stable herself to put up her old mare , or rather to see that she was fed -- she always did that -- so when she got into the house she was wet and chilled through , and she had to go to bed . She must have had on wet clothes , '' he said . I asked him if she knew she was going to die . He said he did not think she did ; that he did not tell her , and she talked about nothing except her Christmas-tree and the people she wanted to see .