ten in the evening
Tom nodded . `` Hurry up then and get your horse , '' the doctor said , going past him into the office . `` Yes , I thought so , '' the doctor said gathering up his instruments . `` I ought to know the signs -- well , well , the poor young Englishman has had plenty of time to die from ten in the evening till four the next morning , without indecent haste either , while this young fellow was hitting up the firewater . Still , God knows , I should n't be hard on him . I 've often kept people waiting for the same reason and , '' he added grimly , `` they did n't always wait either . '' When Tom and the old doctor drove into the yard everything was silent .