I arrived at a little town late at night and felt too tired to drive any further so I went to a hotel. "Could you give me a room for the night" I asked a lady at the front desk ."I am sorry," she said, "You should have booked a room earlier. If you had, it would have been all right. But now every room is full. I wish I could suggest somewhere else but this is the only hotel in town and every room was booked up weeks ago." "What a pity!" I said, "I have been traveling since breakfast and I am very tired." "Well," she said kindly, "Before you give up completely, let’s look at the record of the list. Someone might have changed his plan. Yes, here is a telegram. ’I am arriving on the 7th instead of the 6th.’ You can have this gentleman’s room for the night.\ From the text we know that the writer slept till nine the next morning.