five o'clock
She kept her father 's merciless pace , but always the sense of her stricken life seemed to be hovering in the back of her consciousness , and the hours seemed ages as she applied her bandages , and helped with the gruesome work of the knife on the charred stump of the arm . But finally it was over and she saw Brotherton and Hogan lift Grant to a cot , under her father 's direction , and carry him to the bedroom she had used as a girl at home . While the Doctor and Laura had been working in his office Mrs. Nesbit had been making the bedroom ready . It was five o'clock , and the two fagged women were in Mrs. Nesbit 's room . The younger woman was pale and haggard and unable to relax . The mother tried all of a mother 's wiles to bring peace to the over-strung nerves . But the daughter paced the floor silently , or if she spoke it was to ask some trivial question about the household -- about what arrangements were made for the injured man 's food , about Lila , about Amos Adams and Kenyon .