about six
o'clock
But in this instance both happened -- the expected and the unexpected . As I mentioned at the outset of my story , the habits of the Kingscote household were of an exemplary regularity . Mr. Fortescue , who rose early , expected everybody else to follow his example in this respect , and , as a rule , everybody did so . One morning , at the beginning of October , when the sun rose about six o'clock , and we rose with it , I got up , donned my dressing-gown , and went , as usual , to take my matutinal bath . In order to reach the bath-room I had to pass Mr. Fortescue 's chamber-door . As I neared it I heard within loud exclamations of horror and dismay , in a voice which I recognized as the voice of Ramon . Thinking that something was wrong , that Mr. Fortescue had perchance been taken suddenly ill , I pushed open the door and entered without ceremony .