half past six
she shouted . The hours blurred into a nightmare . The doctor arrived just before midnight and within a half-hour had lanced the wound . He left at two after giving her the addresses of two nurses to call up and promising to return at half past six . It was blood-poisoning . At four , leaving Hilda by the bedside , she went to her room , and slipping with a shudder out of her evening dress , kicked it into a corner . She put on a house dress and returned to the nursery while Hilda went to make coffee .