four o'clock
He liked the solitude of the great house very well ; he had all the play-books to read , and no Father Holt to whip him , and a hundred childish pursuits and pastimes , without doors and within , which made this time very pleasant . Not having been able to sleep , for thinking of some lines for eels which he had placed the night before , the lad was lying in his little bed , waiting for the hour when the gate would be open , and he and his comrade , John Lockwood , the porter 's son , might go to the pond and see what fortune had brought them . At daybreak John was to awaken him , but his own eagerness for the sport had served as a reveillez long since -- so long , that it seemed to him as if the day never would come . It might have been four o'clock when he heard the door of the opposite chamber , the Chaplain 's room , open , and the voice of a man coughing in the passage . Harry jumped up , thinking for certain it was a robber , or hoping perhaps for a ghost , and , flinging open his own door , saw before him the Chaplain 's door open , and a light inside , and a figure standing in the doorway , in the midst of a great smoke which issued from the room . `` Who 's there ? '' cried out the boy , who was of a good spirit .