Seven
o'clock, seven o'clock, seven o'clock
`` We shall see about that , '' said the young lady . `` This heroine of mine , Miss Amanda , never went to sleep . To be sure , she sank into slumber about as often as most people ; but when she spoke of having done so she always said she had ` lost consciousness . ' She was very methodical about going to sleep and waking up ; and at night , just as she was about to lose consciousness , she always said to herself , ` Seven o'clock , seven o'clock , seven o'clock , ' over and over again until she was really asleep ; and in the morning she woke up at seven precisely . She was not married , and so she was able to live her own life much more independently than if the case had been different . She liked to be independent ; and she liked to know as much as she could about everything . In these two things she was generally very successful .