ten o'clock
At six o'clock the doctor reappeared . ` There is no change , ' he remarked . ` I will call in before I go to bed . ' When he lifted the latch for the third time , at ten o'clock , Eli Machin and Miriam still sat by the sofa , and Tommy still lay thereon , moveless , a terrible enigma . But the glass lamp was lighted on the mantelpiece , and Miriam 's sewing , by which she earned a livelihood , had been hidden out of sight . ` There is no change , ' said the doctor . ` You can do nothing except hope . '