about
noon
I could not imagine the Morlocks were strong enough to move it far away . Weena I had resolved to bring with me to our own time . And turning such schemes over in my mind I pursued our way towards the building which my fancy had chosen as our dwelling . The Palace of Green Porcelain `` I found the Palace of Green Porcelain , when we approached it about noon , deserted and falling into ruin . Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows , and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework . It lay very high upon a turfy down , and looking north-eastward before I entered it , I was surprised to see a large estuary , or even creek , where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been . I thought then -- though I never followed up the thought -- of what might have happened , or might be happening , to the living things in the sea .