six o'clock
One of the wheels had come loose , half a mile off the nearest town . Their entry into Harwich was thereby delayed until half-past nine at night . Full of consideration for the new mates now fast wedded to his heart by an accident . Matthew Shale proposed to Matthew Weyburn , instead of the bother of crossing the ferry with a portmanteau and a bag at that late hour , to sup at his house , try the neighbouring inn for a short sleep , and ship on board his yawl , the honest Susan , to be rowed ashore off the Swin to Felixstowe sands no later than six o'clock of a summer 's morning , in time for a bath and a swim before breakfast . It sounded well -- it sounded sweetly . Weyburn suggested the counter proposal of supper for the three at the inn . But the other Matthew said : ` I married a cook .