six
o'clock
She had a horrid feeling that the voice at the other end would say that he was dead . She found a vast relief in the polite but customary `` doing very nicely '' reply that came languidly over the wires . Anne was not by way of knowing that the telephone operators in the hospitals would say very cheerfully that `` Mr. Washington is doing very nicely , '' if one were to call up to inquire into the condition of the Father of his Country ! An `` extra '' at six o'clock announced that the operation had taken place and that Mr. Marraville had survived it , although it was too soon to , -- and so on and so forth . Then she called Simmy Dodge up on the telephone . Simmy would know if anybody knew . And with her customary cleverness and foresightedness she called him up at the hospital .