eight o'clock
`` Another bedroom , sir . '' `` Unlock it , and tell them at the office I wish that room added to my suite . '' As soon as the additional bedroom was at his disposal , he went in and began to undress . When he had taken off coat and waistcoat he paused to telephone to the office a call for eight o'clock . As he finished and hung up the receiver , a sound from the direction of the sitting room made him glance in there . On the threshold of the other bedroom stood his wife . She was in her nightgown ; her hair , done in a single thick braid , hung down across her bosom .