one o’clock in the
afternoon
`` Now that they have told me , I know , and feel terrified , but if I had not been told , I would not have known anything and would have drunk my coffee calmly . After that Death would have come -- but then , am I so afraid of Death ? Here have I been suffering with kidney trouble , and I must surely die from it some day , and yet I am not afraid -- because I do not know anything . And those fools told me : ` At one o'clock in the afternoon , your Excellency ! ' and they thought I would be glad . But instead of that Death stationed itself in the corner and would not go away . It would not go away because it was my thought .