'It stopped three or four times today.' 'Well, I hope it don't stop in the night,' Easton said.

'It would be a bit of all right not knowing what time it was in the morning.

I suppose the next thing will be that we'll have to buy a new clock.' He woke several times during the night and struck a match to see if it was yet time to get up.

At half past two the clock was still going and he again fell asleep.

The next time he work up the ticking had ceased.
He wondered what time it was?
It was still very dark, but that was nothing to go by, because it was always dark at six now.