seven o'clock
There was going to be no nonsense about it this time . I am sorry to disappoint the reader , but facts are facts , and I must not tamper with them . It is , therefore , my duty to state , however reluctantly , that Chapple was not in time for breakfast on the following morning . He woke at seven o'clock , when the hands of the watch pointed to seven-thirty . Primed with virtuous resolutions , he was just about to leap from his couch , when his memory began to work , and he recollected that he had still an hour . Punctuality , he felt , was an excellent thing , a noble virtue , in fact , but it was no good overdoing it . He could give himself at least another half hour .