about ten o'clock
The house was still and I thought at first that no one was awake , but when I opened the sitting-room door the child ran towards me and took my hand as the woman came in from the sick-room . ` Go into the kitchen , Rodman , ' she said , ` and lace up your boots ; you 're going right out with this lady . Hetty died in the night , ' she continued impassively . ` The doctor was here about ten o'clock and I 've never seen her so bad . He gave her a big dose of sleeping powder and put another in the table drawer for me to mix for her towards morning . She was helpless to move , we thought , but all the same she must have got out of bed when my back was turned and taken the powder dry on her tongue , for it was gone when I looked for it . It did n't hasten things much and I do n't blame her .