one o'clock
A few moments later I was enjoying the most delicious sea bath that ever up to that time had fallen to my lot ; the pleasure of the pelting under the fountains was to me a new sensation in life . `` You 'll make a first-rate twentieth-century Bostonian , '' said the doctor , laughing at my delight . `` It is said that a marked feature of our modern civilization is that we are tending to revert to the amphibious type of our remote ancestry ; evidently you will not object to drifting with the tide . '' It was one o'clock when we reached home . `` I suppose , '' said Edith , as I bade her good-night , `` that in ten minutes you will be back among your friends of the nineteenth century if you dream as you did last night . What would I not give to take the journey with you and see for myself what the world was like ! '' `` And I would give as much to be spared a repetition of the experience , '' I said , `` unless it were in your company . ''