about eleven o’clock
`` I have n't come to the worst yet , Master . Father sickened and took to his bed . Margaret would not go in to see him . Then one night Thomas and I were watching by him ; it was about eleven o'clock . All at once he said , ``` Janet , go up and tell the lass ' -- he always called Margaret that -- it was a kind of pet name he had for her -- ` that I 'm deein ' and ask her to come down and speak to me afore I 'm gone . ' `` Master , I went . Margaret was sitting in her room all alone in the cold and dark , staring at the wall .