ten o'clock
Mother should not be told until a physician could assure me she was strong enough to stand the shock . Mary was wonderfully sympathetic and tender , not voluble the way some women would have been . She asked me if I had been to the scene of the accident , and when I told her I was just going , she asked me if I wanted her with me . As it was after ten o'clock and the rain had begun again , I told her `` No , '' and added that I 'd come to see her in the morning . When I left the telephone-booth the drug clerk stared at me inquisitively . `` You look all fagged out , '' he said frankly . `` I 'm not feeling very well , '' I replied , struggling into my rain-coat .