four in the morning
`` I am a light sleeper , as you know , with an uncomfortable knack of waking with the sun and roaming early . No matter how early I rose at Tresillack , Mrs. Carkeek seemed to have prevented me . Finally I had to conclude that she arose and dusted and tidied as soon as she judged me safely a-bed . For once , finding the drawing-room -LRB- where I had been sitting late -RRB- ` redded up ' at four in the morning , and no trace of a plate of raspberries which I had carried thither after dinner and left overnight , I determined to test her , and walked through to the kitchen , calling her by name . I found the kitchen as clean as a pin , and the fire laid , but no trace of Mrs. Carkeek . I walked upstairs and knocked at her door . At the second knock a sleepy voice cried out , and presently the good woman stood before me in her nightgown , looking -LRB- I thought -RRB- very badly scared . ''