five o'clock
He told me it was better than sleep to have me near him . What I went through that night and the following day , I need not recount . Whoever has loved one in danger and out of her reach , will know what it was like . The doctor did not make his appearance until five o'clock , having seen several patients on his way back . The young man , he reported , was certainly in for a fever of some kind -- he could not yet pronounce which . He would see him again on the morrow , he said , and by that time it would have declared itself . Some one in the neighbourhood must watch the case ; it was impossible for him to give it sufficient attention .