about seven
o'clock
It was clear to him that on this night Silverbridge could not be made to understand anything about it . And the deed in which he himself was to be the chief actor was to be done very early in the following morning . At last he slunk away to bed . On the following morning , the morning of the day on which the race was to be run , the Major tapped at his patron 's door about seven o'clock . Of course there was no answer , though the knock was repeated . When young men overnight drink as much brandy-and-water as Silverbridge had done , and smoke as many cigars , they are apt not to hear knocks at their door made at seven o'clock . Nor was his Lordship 's servant up , -- so that Tifto had no means of getting at him except by personal invasion of the sanctity of his bedroom .