half past seven
So I was ; only the hot water would n't come , and apparently there was ice in the cold , which would n't stop coming , and it was very violent . I screamed once , and Mrs. Ess Kay and Sally and Louise ran to the door , which was embarrassing ; but fortunately , I 'd locked it , and they told me how to stop the iced water . When it was all over , I felt like a marble statue for hours . Dinner was at half past seven , which seemed odd in such a grand palace of a house , because , of course , at home , for some extraordinary reason unless you are in the middle classes , you never have an appetite before eight , at the very earliest . If you 're in France , or other countries on the Continent , you can be hungry sooner , and evidently it is the same in America . Perhaps , if I were scientific , I should be able to classify these differences as natural phenomena . I had dressed myself early , and was ready a little after seven , because I thought it would be nice to sit in the fountain court ; but just as I was going down Louise knocked at the door .