seven o'clock in the morning
As he had been advised , he would wait until he felt firm ground beneath him before he made any further remarks . As for the Mistress of the House , she looked at her daughter , and wondered . The story continued : `` All this happened a few years before the middle of a century , and a few years before the end of a century Miss Amanda regained consciousness . That is to say , she woke up at the end of fifty years , exactly as she had been in the habit of waking up at seven o'clock in the morning . But although she was conscious she did not understand how it was possible she should be so . She did not see ; she did not hear ; she did not feel . She had no body ; no hands or feet ; no eyes or ears : she had nothing ; and she knew she had nothing .