After the last post, the story has moved on a little bit.  After Quentin and his friends go upstairs, they do end up finding the clock.  But they don't think it will work.  So Quentin tries to go through the clock, but nothing happens.  Suddenly, a voice behind them says "You're doing it wrong, you know."  When they turn their heads, they discover that a little boy had said that.  After talking to him, they realize that their actual chances of getting back to Fillory are very slim.  This is because the boy says that he has tried multiple things to get to Fillory, not just the clock.  He also says the clock needs to get going, but he has tried that too, and it didn't work.  He also reveals that his parents had bought the house from the children of Fiona Chatwin.  And that the boy and his parents are distantly related to Plover.

So Quentin ends up playing with the boy, who just talks about random things.  They also play some board games and sing some songs.  The boy also took them on a tour of the grounds, which made them very bored.  But when they had finished with the Find Fillory game, they all sat in the boys room.  They needed to think about what they would do next, as they now knew that their chances of returning were getting slimmer and slimmer.