four in
the afternoon
It would have been foolish to stand upon our dignity in a place where there was hardly room to stand upon our feet , so we did nothing of the sort . There were twenty or thirty ladies and gentlemen behind us ; we all turned about and went back , and the hog followed behind . The creature did not seem set up by what he had done ; he had probably done it before . We reached the restaurant on the height called the Chapeau at four in the afternoon . It was a memento-factory , and the stock was large , cheap , and varied . I bought the usual paper-cutter to remember the place by , and had Mont Blanc , the Mauvais Pas , and the rest of the region branded on my alpenstock ; then we descended to the valley and walked home without being tied together . This was not dangerous , for the valley was five miles wide , and quite level .