ten o'clock
While the ship ploughed her way toward England with little Peg on board , the man whom she was crossing the Atlantic to meet died quietly one morning with no one near him . The nurse found Mr. Kingsnorth smiling peacefully as though asleep . He had been dead several hours . Near him on the table was a cable despatch from New York : My daughter sailed on the Mauretania to-day at ten o'clock . FRANK OWEN O'CONNELL . BOOK IV PEG IN ENGLAND Mrs. Chichester -- whom we last saw under extremely distressing circumstances in Ireland -- now enters prominently into the story .