seven o'clock
`` Mark Anthony , Mark Anthony , '' said the priest , `` you talk a great deal too much . Come along now , it 's bedtime . '' One of the rules of the Mission House was that every inmate should be in bed by ten o'clock and all lights out by a quarter past . The day began with Mass at seven o'clock at which everybody was expected to be present ; and from that time onward everybody was so fully occupied that it was essential to go to bed at a reasonable hour . Guests who came down for a night or two were often apt to forget how much the regular workers had to do and what a tax it put upon the willing servants to manage a house of which nobody could say ten minutes before a meal how many would sit down to it , nor even until lights out for how many people beds must be made . In case any guest should forget this rule by coming back after ten o'clock , Father Rowley made a point of having the front door bell to ring in his bedroom , so that he might get out of bed at any hour of the night and admit the loiterer . Guests were warned what would be the effect of their lack of consideration , and it was seldom that Father Rowley was disturbed .