five A.M.
To-night we 'll improvise the bathroom as a dark-room and get everything ready so that we can start in bright and early . '' We were , indeed , up early . One never has difficulty in getting up early in the country : it is so noisy , at least to a city-bred man . City noise at five A.M. is sepulchral silence compared with bucolic activity at that hour . There were a dozen negatives which I set about developing after Craig had used up all our films . Meanwhile , he busied himself adjusting his microscope and test-tubes and getting the agar slides ready for examination . Shirt-sleeves rolled up , I was deeply immersed in my work when I heard a shout in the next room , and the bathroom door flew open .