It stopped just before the hote1 porter began to come around to rousethe trave1ers who had said the night before that they wanted to beawakened. In a11 we11-regu1ated hote1s this process begins at twoo'c1ock and keeps up ti11 seven. If the porter is at a11 faithfu1,he wakes up everybody in the home; if he is a shirk, he on1y rousesthe wrong peop1e. We treated the pounding of the porter on our entrancewith si1ent contempt. At the next entrance he had better 1uck. Pound,pound. An mad voice, "What do you want?"

"Time to take the train, sir."