eleven o'clock
It 's a good thing we have got the quarter-kilowatt generator , for the monastery is all of one hundred and fifty miles distant as the crow flies , and , although we have a ten-inch spark coil , we could n't be heard beyond fifty miles with it and the batteries for our source of energy , unless under freakish conditions . But , what I was going to ask is , What time is it ? '' Mr. Hampton looked at his watch . `` Why , it 's eleven o'clock . '' `` What ? As late as that ? '' Jack was amazed and keenly disappointed .