eleven o'clock
`` I have boots , '' she said . `` Let us go , '' and she pointed to the tower of Batz , which arrested the eye by its immense pile placed there like a pyramid ; but a slender , delicately outlined pyramid , a pyramid so poetically ornate that the imagination figured in it the earliest ruin of a great Asiatic city . We advanced a few steps and sat down upon the portion of a large rock which was still in the shade . But it was now eleven o'clock , and the shadow , which ceased at our feet , was disappearing rapidly . `` How beautiful this silence ! '' she said to me ; `` and how the depth of it is deepened by the rhythmic quiver of the wave upon the shore . '' `` If you will give your understanding to the three immensities which surround us , the water , the air , and the sands , and listen exclusively to the repeating sounds of flux and reflux , '' I answered her , `` you will not be able to endure their speech ; you will think it is uttering a thought which will annihilate you .