eleven o'clock
Mr. Greenfield , Mr. Hartright 's correspondent and agent in these parts , lived in a fine brick house just out of the town , on the Mona Road , his family consisting of a wife and two daughters -- brisk , lively young ladies with black hair and eyes , and very fine bright teeth that shone whenever they laughed , and with a plenty to say for themselves . Thither Barnaby True was often asked to a family dinner ; and , indeed , it was a pleasant home to visit , and to sit upon the veranda and smoke a cigarro with the good old gentleman and look out toward the mountains , while the young ladies laughed and talked , or played upon the guitar and sang . And oftentimes so it was strongly upon Barnaby 's mind to speak to the good gentleman and tell him what he had beheld that night out in the harbor ; but always he would think better of it and hold his peace , falling to thinking , and smoking away upon his cigarro at a great rate . A day or two before the _ Belle Helen _ sailed from Kingston Mr. Greenfield stopped Barnaby True as he was going through the office to bid him to come to dinner that night -LRB- for there within the tropics they breakfast at eleven o'clock and take dinner in the cool of the evening , because of the heat , and not at midday , as we do in more temperate latitudes -RRB- . `` I would have you meet , '' says Mr. Greenfield , `` your chief passenger for New York , and his granddaughter , for whom the state cabin and the two staterooms are to be fitted as here ordered -LSB- showing a letter -RSB- -- Sir John Malyoe and Miss Marjorie Malyoe . Did you ever hear tell of Capt. Jack Malyoe , Master Barnaby ? '' Now I do believe that Mr. Greenfield had no notion at all that old Captain Brand was Barnaby True 's own grandfather and Capt. John Malyoe his murderer , but when he so thrust at him the name of that man , what with that in itself and the late adventure through which he himself had just passed , and with his brooding upon it until it was so prodigiously big in his mind , it was like hitting him a blow to so fling the questions at him .