six o'clock
Tied together , they formed a life-buoy that preserved her life while at the same time it threatened to pound her to a jelly . She was a fat woman , and she bruised easily ; but she had had experience of hurricanes , and while she prayed to her shark god for protection from sharks , she waited for the wind to break . But at three o'clock she was in such a stupor that she did not know . Nor did she know at six o'clock when the dead calm settled down . She was shocked into consciousness when she was thrown upon the sand . She dug in with raw and bleeding hands and feet and clawed against the backwash until she was beyond the reach of the waves . She knew where she was .