four o'clock in
the afternoon
`` It is your English ` thorp , ' or Swedish ` torp , ' or German ` dorf , ' a village , '' replied the Pastor . `` Vandstrup , for instance , is ` the village by the water , ' as the Danish word for water is Vand . It is , as you know , close to the river . '' The pilot had predicted that the wind would lessen at four o'clock in the afternoon , and the yacht got under weigh , and , carrying plenty of sail and full steam , made a rapid passage across Kiøge Bay , so disturbing sometimes to the breakfast of the Kiøbenhavner , who trusts himself to a pleasure excursion on its waters . Off Dragør , the jack was again hoisted for the Copenhagen pilot , and the Rosendal steam yacht was at anchor off the Custom House at Copenhagen , before a late dinner , that evening . `` We must fill up with coal and water , mother , and it had better be done here , '' said Hardy ; `` it would give us time for an excursion to Roeskilde to see the Domkirke , or elsewhere . '' `` No , John , '' said Mrs. Hardy .