eleven o'clock
I want dreadfully to begin and fix the house . Does n't it seem a great while since we left Tunxet , papa ? I ca n't believe that it is only three days , so much has happened . '' The tide had been going out since eleven o'clock , and by four , when they were ready to cross , the causeway was uncovered . It was a wide pathway of sand , not flat and even all the way , but high in some places and low in others , with shells and pebbles shining here and there on its surface . It was like a beach , except for being narrower , and having water on both sides of it , instead of on only one . The sand was still wet enough to make good hard footing , and Eyebright skipped gayly over it , declaring that she felt just like the children of Israel in the middle of the Red Sea .