about nine o'clock in the evening
`` And you must n't get tired , Mrs. Sheridan , '' one of the nurses , herself healthily odorous of a beef and apple-pie dinner , said kindly to Norma , at about seven o'clock . `` There 'll be coffee and sandwiches all night . This is a part of our lives , you know , and we get used to it , but it 's hard for those not accustomed to it . '' At about nine o'clock in the evening Chris came back . Alice had received the news bravely , he said ; there had been no hysteria and she kept admirable control of herself , and he had left her ready for sleep . But it had hit her very hard . Miss Slater had promised him that she would put a sleeping powder into Alice 's regular ten o'clock glass of hot milk , and let him know when she was safely off .