four o'clock
How is the poor old dear this morning , darling ? Better ? '' `` Yes -- much , '' said Mrs. Bawdrey , in reply . `` Doctor Phillipson came to the house before four o'clock , and brought some wonderful new medicine that has simply worked wonders . Of course , he will have to stop in bed and be perfectly quiet for three or four days ; but , although the attack was by far the worst he has ever had , the doctor feels quite confident that he will pull him safely through . '' Now although , in the light of her apparent affection for her aged husband , she ought , one would have thought , to be exceedingly happy over this , it was distinctly noticeable that she was nervous and ill at ease , that there was a hunted look in her eyes , and that , as the day wore on , these things seemed to be accentuated . More than that , there seemed added proof of the truth of young Bawdrey 's assertion that she and Captain Travers were in league with each other , for that day they were constantly together , constantly getting off into out-of-the-way places , and constantly talking in an undertone of something that seemed to worry them .