about two o'clock
`` I 'm hungry , '' suggested the Very Young Man , `` how about you ? '' They ate and drank sparingly of the little store they had brought with them . The Doctor would not let them have much , both because he wanted to conserve their supply , and because he knew in their exhausted condition it would be bad for them to eat heartily . It was about two o'clock when they noticed that objects around them no longer were increasing in size . They had finished their meal and felt greatly refreshed . `` Things have stopped growing , '' observed the Very Young Man . `` We 've done four pills ' worth of the journey anyway , '' he added facetiously .