eleven o'clock
We argued , we tried to calculate the time which we had spent there , but we were incapable of reasoning . If only we could see the face of a watch ! ... Mine had stopped , but M. de Chagny 's was still going ... He told me that he had wound it up before dressing for the Opera ... We had not a match upon us ... And yet we must know ... M. de Chagny broke the glass of his watch and felt the two hands ... He questioned the hands of the watch with his finger-tips , going by the position of the ring of the watch ... Judging by the space between the hands , he thought it might be just eleven o'clock ! But perhaps it was not the eleven o'clock of which we stood in dread . Perhaps we had still twelve hours before us ! Suddenly , I exclaimed : `` Hush ! '' I seemed to hear footsteps in the next room .