eight o'clock
At that moment she could not read it , but she saw words in it that made her wish to know its contents as quickly as possible . But she could not leave her grandfather then . At two o'clock the doctor came to him , and remained there till the dusk of the evening had commenced . At eight o'clock the old man was dead . Showing How Alice Was Punished . Poor Kate 's condition at the old Hall on that night was very sad . The presence of death is always a source of sorrow , even though the circumstances of the case are of a kind to create no agony of grief .