one o'clock
It was in a turret , looking over the tops of the trees in the Anlage ; and the bed was in an alcove , so that when you sat at the desk it had not the look of a bed-room at all . Philip unpacked his things and set out all his books . He was his own master at last . A bell summoned him to dinner at one o'clock , and he found the Frau Professor 's guests assembled in the drawing-room . He was introduced to her husband , a tall man of middle age with a large fair head , turning now to gray , and mild blue eyes . He spoke to Philip in correct , rather archaic English , having learned it from a study of the English classics , not from conversation ; and it was odd to hear him use words colloquially which Philip had only met in the plays of Shakespeare . Frau Professor Erlin called her establishment a family and not a pension ; but it would have required the subtlety of a metaphysician to find out exactly where the difference lay .