noon
It was blood-poisoning . At four , leaving Hilda by the bedside , she went to her room , and slipping with a shudder out of her evening dress , kicked it into a corner . She put on a house dress and returned to the nursery while Hilda went to make coffee . Not until noon could she bring herself to look into Harold 's room , but when she did it was to find him awake and staring very miserably at the ceiling . He turned blood-shot hollow eyes upon her . For a minute she hated him , could n't speak . A husky voice came from the bed .