Two o'clock
The line of breakers is closing up . I can see it . '' But the line opened out , leaving a passage by which Simon pursued his way . Two o'clock ... . Half-past two ... . Sometimes the water was up to his knees , sometimes his feet sank into a bed of thicker sand . These were the low-lying parts , the valleys of the peninsula ; and there might perhaps be some , thought Simon where these beds would be deep enough to bar his passage .