eleven o'clock
The hours of eating were also regulated . His instructions in this regard were short and explicit , for the weakened state of his stomach no longer permitted him to absorb heavy or varied foods . In winter , at five o'clock in the afternoon , when the day was drawing to a close , he breakfasted on two boiled eggs , toast and tea . At eleven o'clock he dined . During the night he drank coffee , and sometimes tea and wine , and at five o'clock in the morning , before retiring , he supped again lightly . His meals , which were planned and ordered once for all at the beginning of each season , were served him on a table in the middle of a small room separated from his study by a padded corridor , hermetically sealed so as to permit neither sound nor odor to filter into either of the two rooms it joined . With its vaulted ceiling fitted with beams in a half circle , its bulkheads and floor of pine , and the little window in the wainscoting that looked like a porthole , the dining room resembled the cabin of a ship .