two o’clock
Is it that ? No wonder , then , that they can not tell yet what it is ! '' I withdrew into my room ; and so far from seeking to put an end to the noise -- I knew Connie did not mind it -- listened to it with a kind of reverence , as the outcome of a gladness which the God of joy had kindled in their hearts . Soon after , however , I heard certain dim growls of expostulation from Harry , and having , from experience , ground for believing that the elder was tyrannising over the younger , I stopped that and the noise together , sending Charlie to find out where the tide would be between one and two o'clock , and Harry to run to the top of the hill , and find out the direction of the wind . Before I was dressed , Charlie was knocking at my door with the news that it would be half-tide about one ; and Harry speedily followed with the discovery that the wind was north-east by south-west , which of course determined that the sun would shine all day . As the dinner-hour drew near , the servants went over , with Walter at their head , to choose a rock convenient for a table , under the shelter of the rocks on the sands across the bay . Thither , when Walter returned , we bore our Connie , carrying her litter close by the edge of the retreating tide , which sometimes broke in a ripple of music under her , wetting our feet with innocuous rush .