a quarter to seven
Being Chief that week it was Katherine 's duty to blow the rising horn in the morning . The day after the return from the canoe trip was the morning for war canoe practice . The crew practised three mornings a week before breakfast . Katherine , who had gone to sleep with the idea firmly fixed in her mind that she must wake by a quarter to seven so that she could rouse the others , awoke with a start , dreaming that she had overslept and the others had tied her in her bed and gone off without her . The world was dull and grey and covered with a chilly mist . There was nothing to inspire a desire to go war canoe practicing . Katherine was still tired from the strenuous paddling of the past two days , and she stretched in delicious comfort under the covers .