"We can't travel with
watches which act this way."
So we left them to be repaired, and as we came out, I said, "It will
take us half an hour to get back to the hotel. Don't you think we
ought to go in somewhere and get just a little something to sustain
us?"
"Of course we ought," she said, in a weak voice. So we went in and got
a light luncheon. Then we went back to the hotel, intending to lie
down and rest after such an arduous day.
"We must not do this again," I said, firmly. "Mamma told me
particularly not to overdo."
My companion did not answer. She was looking at the clock. It was just
noon.
"Why, _that_ clock has stopped too," she said.
But as we looked into the reading-room _that_ clock struck twelve.
Then it dawned on me, and I dropped into a chair and nearly had
hysterics.
"It's because we are so far _north_!" I cried. "Our watches were all
right and the sun's all right. That is as high as it can get!"
She was too much astonished to laugh.
"And you had to go in and get luncheon because you felt so faint," she
said, in a tone of gentle sarcasm.
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