seven o'clock in the morning
Kill two birds with one stone , do n't you know . Fix up his affairs and have a pleasant holiday simultaneously . So George had tagged along , and at the time when the trouble started we were anchored in Monaco Harbour , and Uncle Augustus was due next day . * * * * * Looking back , I may say that , so far as I was mixed up in it , the thing began at seven o'clock in the morning , when I was aroused from a dreamless sleep by the dickens of a scrap in progress outside my state-room door . The chief ingredients were a female voice that sobbed and said : `` Oh , Harold ! '' and a male voice `` raised in anger , '' as they say , which after considerable difficulty , I identified as Voules 's . I hardly recognized it .