four in the morning
He had thought it each evening when Mrs. Foster prepared for his uncle the medicine which was to give him an easy night . There were two bottles : one contained a drug which he took regularly , and the other an opiate if the pain grew unendurable . This was poured out for him and left by his bed-side . He generally took it at three or four in the morning . It would be a simple thing to double the dose ; he would die in the night , and no one would suspect anything ; for that was how Doctor Wigram expected him to die . The end would be painless . Philip clenched his hands as he thought of the money he wanted so badly .