Quarter before eight
At about three o'clock one of the warders opened his cell door and put his head in and swiftly withdrew it . Three more monotonous hours , and then supper -- one pint of gruel , and eight ounces of bread . He ate it as slowly as he could to eke out a few minutes in the heavy day . Quarter before eight a bell to go to bed . At eight the warders came round and saw that all the prisoners were in bed . The next day the same thing , and the next ditto , with this exception , that one of the warders came into his cell and minutely examined it in dead silence . The fourth day the chaplain visited him , asked him a few questions , repeated a few sentences on the moral responsibility of every human being , and set him some texts of Scripture to learn by heart .