six o'clock in the evening
It will be a rough life , living on an almost barren , rocky island , inhabited only by black snakes , albatrosses , gulls and seals . '' `` Tom , you _ must _ . Come , let us tell mother . '' Three days later they were married , and at six o'clock in the evening the newly-made bride was standing beside her husband on the bridge of the _ Dolphin _ , which was steaming full speed towards Sydney Heads , loaded down almost to the waterways with coals and stores for four months . Two months had passed , and the sturdy _ Dolphin _ was lying snugly at anchor in a small , well-sheltered cove on one of the Kent 's Group of islands . Less than a hundred yards away was one of the rudest attempts at a house ever seen -- that is , externally -- for it was built with wreckage from many ships and was roofed with tarpaulins and coarse `` albatross '' grass . Seated on a stool outside the building was Mrs. Lester , engaged in feeding a number of noisy fowls with broken-up biscuit , but looking every now and then towards the _ Braybrook Cattle _ , which lay on the rocks a mile away with only her lower masts standing .