ten o'clock
`` We have been here five days now , and I hope the tide may have removed much that was distressing to see there . '' When the ladies reached the beach it was as Mrs. Carleton had supposed , all the corpses had floated away , but the whole beach and the shore far up from the sea was still strewn with wreckage . They worked very diligently , making piles of many things that might be useful , little Cora trotting about as busily as her companions , and helping as far as she knew how . It was scarcely ten o'clock , but the ladies had been out in the sun for some time lifting and carrying heavy burdens , an occupation which was as fatiguing to them as it was novel . So that they might rest a little while , and get all the sea breeze that there was on that still day , they went out on to a mass of high rocks , which projected into the ocean and formed a cove on each side . Scarcely had they seated themselves , when they saw a gentleman climbing up from one of the coves below and coming toward them . He was a young man perhaps twenty-seven years of age .