ten o’clock
The evidence led the jury to infer what he had done with it . The prisoner 's valet deposed that his master had rung for him at twenty minutes to ten on the morning of the day on which his mistress died , and had ordered a cup of tea for her . The man had received the order at the open door of Mrs. Macallan 's room , and could positively swear that no other person but his master was there at the time . The under-housemaid , appearing next , said that she had made the tea , and had herself taken it upstairs before ten o'clock to Mrs. Macallan 's room . Her master had received it from her at the open door . She could look in , and could see that he was alone in her mistress 's room . The nurse , Christina Ormsay , being recalled , repeated what Mrs. Macallan had said to her on the day when that lady was first taken ill .