half past three in the afternoon
It was unspeakably comfortable to stretch our weary limbs between the cool , damp sheets . And how we did sleep ! -- for there is no opiate like Alpine pedestrianism . In the morning we both awoke and leaped out of bed at the same instant and ran and stripped aside the window-curtains ; but we suffered a bitter disappointment again : it was already half past three in the afternoon . We dressed sullenly and in ill spirits , each accusing the other of oversleeping . Harris said if we had brought the courier along , as we ought to have done , we should not have missed these sunrises . I said he knew very well that one of us would have to sit up and wake the courier ; and I added that we were having trouble enough to take care of ourselves , on this climb , without having to take care of a courier besides .