one o'clock
dinner must be waiting . Look at that fellow 's trowel -- he knows : he turns up the point of it like a spoon . They say that he can smell his dinner two miles off . We all dine at one o'clock now , that I may rout up every man-Jack of them . '' The Major sounded a steam-guard 's whistle , and led me off in the rapidly vanishing wake of his hungry workmen . Sir Montague Hockin , to my great delight , was still away from Bruntsea . If he had been there , it would have been a most awkward thing for me to meet him , or to refuse to do so .