On the last day of November, Paul Garrett was wakened early by a cowboy shouting.

She took her dinnerbasket into the adjoining compartment, and sat there while I made up the bed; then she told me that she did not wish to be wakened early in the morning, that she liked to sleep on.

In the morning she wakened early to hear Jeffrey at the main door of the cottage engaged in a brisk conversation with someone.

She wakened early, and because she was far too restless to lie in bed and wait for Meg to call her, she got up and pottered around her room.

Hop glanced up at the calendar on the wall (they never bother with clocks in the Sleeproom) and realized that he had been wakened almost three months early.

She fell asleep, accordingly, at once, after her stage make-up was removed; and was not at all pleased to be wakened early with the news that Mrs Gracie had called.

But why had he wakened early?

He lay long awake and wakened early: listening to the Sunday morning silence, hoping that it would be a good day - The Franchise looked its worst in rain, when its dirty-white became almost grey - and that whatever Marion made for lunch would "stand up".

I wakened once or twice early in the night and heard the thin voice of an owl.