nearly four o'clock
Perhaps it is years . '' He looked at his watch . `` I do not know whether we are in time or eternity , '' he answered simply . `` It is nearly four o'clock by this watch . '' Through the dense vapor they saw the sun rise , red and sullen , but the mist was so impenetrable that they dared not move about . The day and night passed , almost without their knowledge , and the second morning found them , as the first , by the great boulder . The wind rose with the sun , and when it blew aside the veil of mist , far as the eye could reach , there rolled a sea , white-capped , turbulent , fretful , as if unwilling to leave a single peak to tower above its lordly dominion .