about five in the
morning
` Man can , ' he said . ` That will we . Brave sire , your hand on it . ' The days were almost at their longest , and it was about five in the morning , the sun only just making his way over the screen of the higher hills to the north-east , though it had been daylight for some time . Prudence made the two withdraw under the shelter of the woods , and there they built their plan , both young men being gratified to do so without their two advisers . Neither of them doubted his own footing , and George was sure that three or four of the men who had come with Sir Robert were equally good cragsmen . Sigismund sighed for some Tirolese whom he had left at home , but he had at least one man with him ready to dare any height ; and he thought a rope would make all things sure .