midnight
The house opposite , six storeys high , was a workshop for Jewish tailors who left off work at eleven ; the rooms were brightly lit and there were no blinds to the windows . The sweater 's daughter -- the family consisted of father , mother , two small boys , and a girl of twenty -- went round the house to put out the lights when work was over , and sometimes she allowed herself to be made love to by one of the tailors . The shop assistants in Philip 's room got a lot of amusement out of watching the manoeuvres of one man or another to stay behind , and they made small bets on which would succeed . At midnight the people were turned out of the Harrington Arms at the end of the street , and soon after they all went to bed : Bell , who slept nearest the door , made his way across the room by jumping from bed to bed , and even when he got to his own would not stop talking . At last everything was silent but for the steady snoring of the soldier , and Philip went to sleep . He was awaked at seven by the loud ringing of a bell , and by a quarter to eight they were all dressed and hurrying downstairs in their stockinged feet to pick out their boots . They laced them as they ran along to the shop in Oxford Street for breakfast .