seven o'clock
Goodnight . '' He went into his own room , where he found his wife still awake . Her weak lamentings and bewailings were insupportable to him ; and at three o'clock he went downstairs , put on his boots and a light overcoat , and went out into the dim regions of Bayswater , whence he saw the sun rise red above the eastern roofs and chimneys , and where he walked until the first clatter of hoofs and roll of wheels began to echo through the empty streets , and , with faint distant cries of sweeps and milk-women , life 's chorus recommenced . It was seven o'clock when he went back to his house , and let himself in softly with his latchkey . He knew that he had been walking a long time , and that he had seen the sun rise ; but what streets or squares he had been walking in he did not know . He crept upstairs to his dressing-room with stealthy footsteps , and made an elaborate toilet . At eight o'clock he was seated at breakfast in the hastily-arranged dining-room , with the newspapers by the side of his cup and saucer .