eleven at night
The man was not content to be a doctor : night after night he 'd sit up and tend Dan ' l like a nurse , and would talk by the hour together when the patient lay wakeful . But his opinions were enough to cut a religious man to the heart . Dan ' l had plenty of time to think over them , too . From daybreak -LRB- when the young doctor took his leave -RRB- , till between ten and eleven at night -LRB- when he came again -RRB- was a terrible lonely while for a man shut in an empty house and unable to move for pain . As the days wore on and his wound bettered , he 'd creep to the door and sit watching the fields and the ships out at sea and William Sleep moving about the slope below . Sometimes he would spend an hour in thinking out plans for his escape ; but his money had gone with the lugger , and without money no plan seemed workable . Sometimes he 'd think upon the girl Amelia Sanders .