half past one
he asked . `` I was too excited , '' she answered . `` But I am not tired '' ; and certainly there was no trace of fatigue in her appearance . They started at half past one and went up behind the hut . The stars shimmered overhead in a dark and cloudless sky . The night was still ; as yet there was no sign of dawn . The great rock cliffs of the Chardonnet across the glacier and the towering ice-slopes of the Aiguille Verte beneath which they passed were all hidden in darkness .