one o'clock precisely
Jim had n't liked it , and tried to say so . Unfortunately , he stammered , and Don Ferdinando -LRB- Mr. Summerfield -RRB- had laughed and gone off , saying he could n't wait . _ Now _ it was Jim 's chance . He felt that this was so , and he rejoiced in the sensation as well as in his appetite and the thought of the excellent soup , omelette , cutlets , and other things which it was Mrs. Jumbo 's privilege to be serving to the three Englishmen -LRB- reckoning Jim in the three -RRB- at half-past one o'clock precisely . Toro had made a great fuss about his news . He was drying Jim at the time , and Jim was saying that he did n't suppose any other English fellow of fifteen had had such a splendid bathe . There were snow-peaks in the distance , slowly melting into that lake , which well deserved its name of `` Cold . ''