three in the morning
Being much less cool-headed than Mr. Fogg , he was much more restless , counting and recounting the days passed over , uttering maledictions when the train stopped , and accusing it of sluggishness , and mentally blaming Mr. Fogg for not having bribed the engineer . The worthy fellow was ignorant that , while it was possible by such means to hasten the rate of a steamer , it could not be done on the railway . The train entered the defiles of the Sutpour Mountains , which separate the Khandeish from Bundelcund , towards evening . The next day Sir Francis Cromarty asked Passepartout what time it was ; to which , on consulting his watch , he replied that it was three in the morning . This famous timepiece , always regulated on the Greenwich meridian , which was now some seventy-seven degrees westward , was at least four hours slow . Sir Francis corrected Passepartout 's time , whereupon the latter made the same remark that he had done to Fix ; and upon the general insisting that the watch should be regulated in each new meridian , since he was constantly going eastward , that is in the face of the sun , and therefore the days were shorter by four minutes for each degree gone over , Passepartout obstinately refused to alter his watch , which he kept at London time . It was an innocent delusion which could harm no one .