eight in the morning
Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - Then Miss Bürstner Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K. , he knew he had done nothing wrong but , one morning , he was arrested . Every day at eight in the morning he was brought his breakfast by Mrs. Grubach 's cook - Mrs. Grubach was his landlady - but today she did n't come . That had never happened before . K. waited a little while , looked from his pillow at the old woman who lived opposite and who was watching him with an inquisitiveness quite unusual for her , and finally , both hungry and disconcerted , rang the bell . There was immediately a knock at the door and a man entered .