eight o'clock
She began complaining , instead , about the bed , which had not yet been made . A standing source of grumbling , this ; for the old lady would come down to breakfast many a morning , and then go up again before she had it , thinking it was already late in the day . She worried the _ pensionnaires _ to death , too . It was their duty to keep the salon tidy , and Miss Waghorn would flutter into the room as early as eight o'clock , find the furniture still unarranged , and at once dart out again to scold the girls . These interviews were amusing before they became monotonous , for the old lady 's French was little more than ` nong pas ' attached to an infinitive verb , and the girls ' Swiss-German explanations of the alleged neglect of duty only confused her . ` Nong pas faire la chambre , ' she would say , stamping her foot with vexation . ` You have n't done the room , though it 's nearly dejooner time ! '