two o'clock
It 's too explosive and loud . -LRB- Do n't you think other animals must consider the laughter of humans an odd noise , without rhyme or reason ? -RRB- Also Dick has a nasty way of saying `` thank you '' to a waiter ; with the rising inflection , you know , which is nicely calculated to make the servant feel himself the last of God 's creatures . By two o'clock we had said good-bye to Salisbury -LRB- `` good-bye '' for me , `` au revoir '' for the others , perhaps -RRB- , and were kinematographing in and out of charming scenery , lovelier perhaps than any we 'd seen yet . Under green gloom of forests , where it seemed a prisoned dryad might be napping in each tree , and where only a faun could have been a suitable chauffeur ; past heatherland , just lit to rosy fire by the sun 's blaze ; through billowy country where grain was gold and silver , meadows were `` flawed emeralds set in copper , '' and here and there a huge dark blot meant a prehistoric barrow . The car played us a trick for the first time , and Young Nick , looking more like Buddha than ever , got down to have a heart-to-heart talk with the motor . I think Apollo had swallowed a crumb , or something , for he coughed and wheezed , and would n't move except with gasps , until he had been patted under the bonnet , and tickled with all sorts of funny instruments , such as a giant 's dentist might use .