seven o'clock
I daresay the whole privy council puzzled over those notes of mine . I felt very pleased with them when they were done . I had not much more than a half-hour left to me when I finished writing them out . The ship 's bells told me that it was seven o'clock . Cabin breakfast , as I knew very well , would be at eight . I could expect to be called at half past seven . I put the two flaps of the satchel evenly together , removing all traces of the thread used in the earlier sewing .