noon
`` No , '' said Jack . `` You can not tell how ill I feel . '' `` My dear lad , I know exactly , '' said the captain . `` Come , pluck up your courage ; we 're going to have a glorious day , and the wind will drop before noon . Take my advice : go below to have a good tubbing , and dress yourself again , and by breakfast-time you 'll be beginning to wonder that you should have felt so queer ; and mind this , sea-sickness is n't a disease : it 's a -- well , it 's a -- Ah , here 's the doctor . Morning , Doctor Instow , you 're just in time . What is sea-sickness ? ''