twelve o'clock
One night Lilly and Zoe , returning from a Boston Symphony concert for which they held first-balcony season seats , found Harry trying to pour brandy between the clenched lips of Mrs. Schum , who lay rigid on the hall floor where she had fallen , her head bleeding from a sharp contact with the door . Her poor face with the shriveled bags of flesh seemed suddenly shrunk , and , holding the flask against her teeth , Harry 's hands were trembling so that the liquid poured in a thin stream off the edge of her mouth . After half an hour of desperate and unavailing use of home remedies , Lilly sent for a doctor , one in the building , who came down in dinner clothes . At twelve o'clock that night Mrs. Schum , without regaining consciousness , was rushed to the Saint Genevieve Hospital in East Seventy-eighth Street , for an emergency operation that had to do with a growth in her side . It was Lilly 's first contact with the casualty of sudden illness . In the little anteroom of the hospital , her hand in Harry 's , she sat the remainder of the night through . He was constantly wiping away the tears from his light eyes and looking away to gulp .