two o'clock
`` We 'll make the ascent immediately after dinner to-morrow , '' said Smith . `` Right you are , '' replied I . The next day arrived . Dinner was always over soon after one at the farmhouse , and by two o'clock , having slipped quietly and secretly off , we were beginning our climb up the hillside . For more than an hour we made slow but easy progress , taking a rest every now and then for a minute or two . We must have got up a considerable distance , but neither the mountain-top nor the Eagles ' Home seemed much nearer . On and up we trudged , walking faster and determined to take no more rests .