ten
o'clock
The steamer cleared the Redondas , stood down through Desolation Sound and turned her blunt nose into the lower gulf just as dark came on . Hollister and Doris Cleveland sat in the cabin talking . They went to dinner together , and if there were curious looks bestowed upon them Hollister was too engrossed to care and the girl , of course , could not see those sidelong , unspoken inquiries . After dinner they found chairs in the same deck saloon and continued their conversation until ten o'clock , when drowsiness born of a slow , rolling motion of the vessel drove them to their berths . The drowsiness abandoned Hollister as soon as he turned in . He lay wakeful , thinking about Doris Cleveland . He envied her courage and fortitude , the calm assurance with which she seemed to face the world which was all about her and yet hidden from her sight .