ten o'clock
Amulets and crucifixes , Keys of Heaven and lives of the Blessed Saints , cheap vases of ruby and emerald glass , candles and rosaries , would at another time have afforded Ringfield much matter for speculation , but the fact was that almost as soon as he had deposited his bag on the table of the narrow bedroom assigned to him , the cold he had so long neglected caught him seriously , and for an entire day and a half he insisted on sitting at his window when he should have been in bed . On the next day his feverish symptoms increased to such an extent that the man who owned the room and who was a widower , managing for himself , sent for a nurse . Tossing on the bed , and frequently rising to look out of the window , Ringfield fretfully objected , but his landlord was firm , and sent a message at once to the Hospital of the Incarnation , the nearest charitable institution and the parent of several flourishing branches , among which was that at Lalurette where Ringfield had thought of placing Angeel . It was early on Thursday evening when the message was sent , and at ten o'clock Archibald Groom , the shopkeeper , came to say that a person recently arrived from the country was below , but that she spoke very little English . He was not answered , and bending over the bed he saw that his lodger was delirious , eyes glassy and staring and head rolling from side to side , with high colour and stertorous breathing . To call the nurse , who was waiting in the shop , was the work of an instant ; she came quickly and noiselessly up the dark stair and saw at once a case of brain fever , partly brought on by exposure and neglected cold , also recognizing in the sick man the well-known minister at St. Ignace and her husband 's _ protégé _ . Mme. Poussette , for it was she , possessed more discretion than sense , and more sense than wit ; she looked calmly upon her patient as upon a stranger and set about her work in silence .