7 a.m.
He simply said to me : `` Everything is rotten . Go to hell , and shut the door after you ! '' His man , who seems a very decent little fellow , though he is as vain as a peacock , and speaks with a Cockney accent which is simply terrible , came down the passage after me , and explained `` on his own , '' as he expressed it , that his master , `` Mr. Ernest , '' was upset by the long journey , and that I was not to mind . I did not wish to make him uncomfortable , so I explained that I minded nothing except what Your Honour wished ; that the steam-yacht would be ready at 7 a.m. ; and that I should be waiting in the hotel from that time on till Mr. Melton cared to start , to bring him aboard . In the morning I waited till the man Jenkinson came and told me that Mr. Ernest would start at ten . I asked if he would breakfast on board ; he answered that he would take his _ cafe-complet _ at the hotel , but breakfast on board . We left at ten , and took the electric pinnace out to the _ Trent _ , which lay , with steam up , in the roads .