four o'clock
Good-day , Madame du Rocher . '' On the staircase he met the doctor , and asked him what he thought of the patient . As he was a doctor who came through charity , and did not consider himself at all bound to be considerate when he was not paid , he replied that in three days she would be dead . Coming back at four o'clock , Buvat found the whole house in commotion . The doctor had said that they must send for the viaticum . They had sent for the curé , and he had arrived , and , preceded by the sacristan and his little bell , he had without any preparation entered the sick room . Clarice received it with her hands joined , and her eyes turned toward heaven ; but the impression produced on her was not the less terrible .