five o'clock
`` I shall not be sorry to set foot where no person has ever stepped , or even looked , before . '' Certainly on this day the Great Eyrie looked tranquil enough . As we gazed upon it , there rose from its heights neither smoke nor flame . Toward five o'clock our expedition halted at the Wildon farm , where the tenants warmly welcomed their landlord . The farmer assured us that nothing notable had happened about the Great Eyrie for some time . We supped at a common table with all the people of the farm ; and our sleep that night was sound and wholly untroubled by premonitions of the future . On the morrow , before break of day , we set out for the ascent of the mountain .