seven in the morning
He closed the door after him quietly , and the horrified steward , after fetching the bed-clothes on tiptoe from the kitchen , locked the door which led to the staircase , and after making up a bed on the floor lay down in his clothes and tried to get to sleep . He dozed off at last , but woke up several times during the night with the cold . The lamp burnt itself out , and in the dark he listened intently for any sounds of life in the room above . Then he fell asleep again , until at about half-past seven in the morning a loud crash overhead awoke him with a start . In a moment he was sitting up with every faculty on the alert . Footsteps blundered about in the room above , and a large and rapidly widening patch of damp showed on the ceiling . It was evident that the sleeper , in his haste to quench an abnormal thirst , had broken the water jug .