midnight
`` It may be , '' said Anne . `` I would like well to go , if we could see her , '' Amanda said thoughtfully . Amos was now full of plans for the trip . There would be a favoring tide at midnight , and he was sure they could sail out of the harbor and be well on their way by morning ; and , giving the girls many cautions about being on the shore at the right time , he went happily off to look over the sloop `` Peggy , '' and to wonder what Jimmie Starkweather would say if he knew that he , Amos , was going to sail a boat straight up to Boston ! The sloop , `` Peggy , '' was becalmed . Anne , Amanda and Amos looked over the smooth stretch of water , but there was not a ripple to be seen . Since sunrise , the boat had not moved .