Perhaps it's stopped.' But it hadn't stopped.

Therefore it must be two hours past breakfast time.

The moment he had thought this he became extremely hungry.

He got out of bed as soon as he knew exactly how hungry he was.
There was no one about, so he made his way to the bath-room and spent a happy hour with the hot water and the cold water, and the brown Windsor soap and the shaving soap and the nail brush and the flesh brush and the loofahs and the shower bath and the three sponges.

He had not, so far, been able thoroughly to investigate and enjoy all these things.