midday
His face fell . `` I know it , '' he said ruefully ; `` but my doublet had more rents than slashes in it , and Martin Tailor kept it until cockcrow . That fellow rolls in tobacco ; he hath grown rich off our impoverished wardrobes since the ship down yonder passed the capes . After all , '' he brightened , `` the bargaining takes not place until toward midday , after solemn service and thanksgiving . There 's time enough ! '' He waved me a farewell , as his great sail and narrow craft carried him past me . I looked at the sun , which truly was not very high , with a secret disquietude ; for I had had a scurvy hope that after all I should be too late , and so the noose which I felt tightening about my neck might unknot itself .