seven o'clock in the morning
The next man comes on at half-past seven , and the third man at eight , and so on . The bedroom steward raps at your door when the proper time arrives , and informs you that the bath is ready . You wrap a dressing-gown or a cloak around you , and go along the silent corridors to the bath-room , coming back , generally before your half hour is up , like a giant refreshed . Plodkins ' bath hour was seven o'clock in the morning . Mine was half-past seven . On the particular morning in question the steward did not call me , and I thought he had forgotten , so I passed along the dark corridor and tried the bath-room door . I found it unbolted , and as everything was quiet inside , I entered .