Explain the scene in detail when George gets mistaken over the time of day.

This incident is retold in Chapter XI of Three Men in a Boat. The narrator and George wake up early but don’t feel like getting up. The situation reminds George of a foggy night when his watch stopped and he didn’t know what time it was. When he woke up, he saw that the hands on his watch were set at “quarter-past eight.” George believed his watch and assumed that he would be late...

This incident is retold in Chapter XI of Three Men in a Boat. The narrator and George wake up early but don’t feel like getting up. The situation reminds George of a foggy night when his watch stopped and he didn’t know what time it was. When he woke up, he saw that the hands on his watch were set at “quarter-past eight.” George believed his watch and assumed that he would be late to get to work at nine o’clock. He threw the watch down and got ready for work. The watch evidently started working again. But George found it strange that no one else in the house had gotten up for breakfast. And when he went out on the dark and gloomy street, no one else was there either, even though his watch now said it was close to nine o’clock. He stopped to ask a policeman what the problem was, and they both heard a nearby clock strike three. It turned out to be three o’clock in the morning. George went back home but wasn’t comfortable with any action he chose: going back to bed, going for another walk, getting the fire lit, starting breakfast, etc. So he just sat back in a corner in his overcoat until his landlady got up and made breakfast.