Seven o'clock
She ran at once , candle in hand , to his bedroom . It was upstairs . All `` upstairs '' was Arthur Constant 's domain , for it consisted of but two mutually independent rooms . Mrs. Drabdump knocked viciously at the door of the one he used for a bedroom , crying , `` Seven o'clock , sir . You 'll be late , sir . You must get up at once . '' The usual slumbrous `` All right '' was not forthcoming ; but , as she herself had varied her morning salute , her ear was less expectant of the echo .