eight o’clock
No other person was allowed to see the patient . Mr. Dexter and Mrs. Beauly made their inquiries outside the door , and were not invited in . As the evening drew on the doctors sat on either side of the bed , silently watching her , silently waiting for her death . `` Toward eight o'clock she seemed to have lost the use of her hands and arms : they lay helpless outside the bed-clothes . A little later she sank into a sort of dull sleep . Little by little the sound of her heavy breathing grew fainter . At twenty minutes past nine Doctor Jerome told me to bring the lamp to the bedside .