Seven o’clock
In his eyes I had evidently just proved myself a barbarian , incapable of understanding the arts , and unworthy of enjoying them . He got up without answering me , hastily took up the Jordaens , and replaced it in its hiding-place behind the prints . It was a sort of dismissal ; I took leave of him , and went away . Seven o'clock . -- When I come in again , I find my water boiling over my lamp , and I busy myself in grinding my Mocha , and setting out my coffee-things . The getting coffee ready is the most delicate and most attractive of domestic operations to one who lives alone : it is the grand work of a bachelor 's housekeeping . Coffee is , so to say , just the mid-point between bodily and spiritual nourishment .