four o'clock
You know what comes of it ! ' Dusk dropped down without his noticing -- dusk on the carved , Assyrian-looking masses of the rocks . And the voice of Nature said : `` This is a new world for you ! '' As when a man gets up at four o'clock and goes out into a summer morning , and beasts , birds , trees stare at him and he feels as if all had been made new . He stayed up there for hours , till it grew cold , then groped his way down the stones and heather roots to the road , back into the lane , and came again past the wild meadow to the orchard . There he struck a match and looked at his watch . Nearly twelve !