midday
None of them had ever seen either of them before , as it happened , though I do not think that any could have recognized the queen as she was then , wan and worn with the terror of her long hiding . Very silent was she as she sat on deck gazing ever at the long white wake of the ship that seemed to stretch for a little way towards Denmark , only to fade away as a track over which one may never go back . And silent , too , was my mother ; but the children , who had no care , were pleased with all things , and Raven and I were full of the ways of old seamen . So everything went quietly until after we had our midday meal . We were all amidships on the wide deck , except my father and Arngeir , who sat side by side on the steersman 's bench on the high poop . There was no spray coming on board , for we were running , and the ship was very steady . Raven and I were forward with the men , busy with the many little things yet to be done to the rigging and such like that had been left in the haste at last , and there was no thought but that this quiet , save for some shift of wind maybe , would last until we saw the English shore .