eight until eleven in the morning
He felt that if he had a love he would have hung her picture just facing the tub so that , lost in the soothing steamings of the hot water , he might lie and look up at her and muse warmly and sensuously on her beauty . The apartment was kept clean by an English servant with the singularly , almost theatrically , appropriate name of Bounds , whose technic was marred only by the fact that he wore a soft collar . Had he been entirely Anthony 's Bounds this defect would have been summarily remedied , but he was also the Bounds of two other gentlemen in the neighborhood . From eight until eleven in the morning he was entirely Anthony 's . He arrived with the mail and cooked breakfast . At nine-thirty he pulled the edge of Anthony 's blanket and spoke a few terse words -- Anthony never remembered clearly what they were and rather suspected they were deprecative ; then he served breakfast on a card-table in the front room , made the bed and , after asking with some hostility if there was anything else , withdrew . In the mornings , at least once a week , Anthony went to see his broker .