noon on Sunday
The _ Lithuania _ actually descended below five hundred and forty knots in the twenty-four hours . And no authoritative explanation of this behaviour was ever given . Upon leaving New York there had been talk of reaching Fishguard on Saturday evening . But now the prophesied moment of arrival had been put forward to noon on Sunday . Edward Henry 's sole consolation was that each day on the eastward trip consisted of only twenty-three hours . Further , he was by no means free from apprehension about the personal liberty of Isabel Joy . Isabel had exceeded the programme arranged between them .