about four
o'clock
`` How far is San Lorenzy from the ocean ? '' `` Eleven miles , '' said Ajax . `` We 're sailin ' plumb into the fog . '' In late October the sea fog generally begins to roll up about four o'clock . If the breeze is from the land , the fog is kept at bay for an hour or two . As a rule , the breeze fails , and then the fog asserts its dominion over all things on land and sea . Without knowing much of aerial navigation , I grasped the fact that we were being swept into the fog , and that if we intended to descend on land there was not a minute to be lost .