eight o'clock
What had he got to whistle about ? It was unnatural that one man should go whistling to his work , when another had not been able to sleep the whole night long . He took another vast glut of whisky , and the moment after was dead to the world . He was awakened at eight o'clock by a monstrous hammering on his door . By the excessive loudness of the first knock he heard on returning to consciousness , he knew that his landlady had lost her temper in trying to get him up . Ere he could shout she had thumped again . He stared at the ceiling in sullen misery .