two o’clock
She came back again with a cupful of beef tea which she offered me with another bright smile . If I were not a man with a very high sense of the courtesy due to women I should have taken the cup and thrown it at her head . It is , I think , very much to my credit that I drank the beef tea and then did nothing worse than turn my face to the wall . At two o'clock she got my dressing gown and somewhat ostentatiously spread it out on a chair in front of the fire . I lay still and said nothing , though I saw that she still clung to the idea of getting me out of bed . Then she rang the bell and made the red-haired girl bring a dilapidated armchair into the room . She pummelled its cushions with her fists for some time and then put a pillow on it .