half past two
We woke them -- a difficult task , but we did not shrink from it . Then we said , ` Get up , there is a flood ! Wake up , or you will be drowned in your beds ! And it 's half past two by Oswald 's watch . ' They awoke slowly and very stupidly . H. O. was the slowest and stupidest . The water poured faster and faster from the ceiling .