ten o'clock
They heard it too , turned sharply round and walked off to the houses . Soon after that the lights in the windows died down and everything became very still . I looked at my watch . It was ten o'clock . I waited for a while to see if anything would happen , but there was nothing ; so I got some books out -LRB- which took a few minutes -RRB- and before I settled down to them I thought I would just take one more look out of the window . Where were all the little houses ? At the first glance I thought they had vanished , but it was not exactly so .