Ten past eleven
We must be right in the middle of the Fens , from the appearance of those lights , so , all told , we 've done a mile or more underground , which is n't so bad , my lad , when you come to look at the time . '' He brought out his watch and surveyed it in the moonlight . `` H 'm . Ten past eleven . You 'll have to look sharp , boy , if you 're to get to the docks by twelve . We 've a good four miles ' walk ahead of us , and -- what was that ? '' `` That '' was the sound of a man 's feet coming swiftly toward them ; they had one second to act , and flight over this marshy ground , filled with pit holes as it was , was impossible .