Three o'clock
`` Ah , what hundreds of volumes we might fill with what we do n't know ! '' exclaimed Michel . `` But I say , '' he continued , `` what time is it ? '' `` Three o'clock , '' answered Nicholl . `` How the time goes , '' said Michel , `` in the conversation of _ savants _ like us ! Decidedly I feel myself getting too learned ! I feel that I am becoming a well of knowledge ! ''