“This is nothing to the things I will show you,” said the Professor. “I see you have an hour-glass here. Is this the only way you have of recording time?”
“We have the sun.”
“No clocks or watches?”
“I do not know what they are.”
“Tilly, show him your watch. This is the machine with which we tell time.”
“Alive, is it?” asked the Hermit.
The Professor explained the mechanism to him in detail.
“You are indeed a learned man,” said the recluse. “But I have forgotten a part of my duty. Will you not take some food?”
“Well,” said the Professor, “if you have anything about in the form of a lunch, I think I could dispose of it.”
“I am awfully hungry,” said Miss Baffin.