He was asleep in a little room off the kitchen.

I was shown in, and he lit a candle and proceeded to get up.

I had never seen a general in bed before, so was much interested in discovering what he looked like and how he was dressed.

I found that a general in war time goes to bed in his underclothes, like an ordinary private.

The General got up and went outside and put the spy through a series of questions, but he did so in a very sleepy voice, and with a perfunctory manner which seemed to me to indicate that he was more concerned about getting back to bed than he was in saving the army from danger.