about eleven
o'clock
The wood is as dry as a bone luckily , or I should be smoked out in no time , for there is not much ventilation through that narrow loophole . '' The warmth of the fire and the additional blanket made all the difference , and in a couple of hours Godfrey was sound asleep . When he woke it was broad daylight , and although he felt cold it was nothing to what he had experienced on the previous morning . At about eleven o'clock , as near as he could guess , for his watch and everything had been removed when he was searched , the door was opened and a prison official with two warders appeared . By these he was conducted to the same room where he had been first examined . Neither of the officers who had then been there was present , but an elderly man sat at the centre of the table . `` Godfrey Bullen , '' he said , `` a careful investigation has been made into your antecedents , and with one exception , and that not , for various reasons , an important one , we have received a good report of you .