midnight
'T is not your work to forespeak bad weather , and I wish you would n't do it , Denas ; I do for sure . '' In an hour John came back and had a mouthful of meat and bread , but he was hurried and anxious , and said he had not come yet to his meat-list and would be off about his business . Then Joan asked him concerning the weather , and he answered : `` The gulls do fly high , and that do mean a breeze ; but there be no danger until they fly inland . The boats will be back before midnight , my dear . '' `` If the wind do let them , John . Denas says it be on its contrary old ways again . '' `` My old dear , we be safest when the storm-winds blow ; for then God do be keeping the lookout for us .