six in the morning
But it will go hard if I do not have her in the end , and I shall if she is to be got ; for the men of my blood soon make up their minds when they want a thing , and they do not rest much until it 's theirs . This peculiarity has often landed them in trouble in past times , and may land me in trouble now ; but I 'm ready for the risk , as they were . I did n't know at first which was the English girl -- _ my _ girl with the chestnut hair , dark hazel eyes , and rose and white complexion ; or the other girl with brown hair , eyes of violet , and skin of cream . But when I encountered my girl in the sea at half-past six in the morning , unchaperoned except by a foolish runaway horse attached to a bathing-machine , I should have guessed that she was the American , even if there had been nothing in her pretty voice to suggest it . I am sorry that it could n't have been the other way round , for my English mother 's sake , since my fate is n't to be Dutch . But it ca n't be helped . I have seen The One Girl , and it would be the same if she were a Red Indian .