six o'clock
He lit the gas with matches he found on the mantel-piece . Then he emptied the pockets of his own clothes , and threw all his wet things in a heap into the scullery . After which he gathered up her sodden clothes , gently , and put them in a separate heap on the copper-top in the scullery . It was six o'clock on the clock . His own watch had stopped . He ought to go back to the surgery . He waited , and still she did not come down .