eleven
o'clock before
The yacht turned out to be a more fruitful subject than Meldon expected . The Major had made some alterations in her trim , which led to an animated discussion . He also had a plan for changing her from a cutter into a yawl , and Meldon was quite ready to argue out the points of advantage and disadvantage in each rig . It was half-past eleven o'clock before they parted for the night , and even then they had not decided where to go next day . It was the evening of the second day of the _ Spindrift 's _ cruise . The wind , which had come fresh from the east in the morning , followed the sun round in its course , blowing gently from the south at mid-day , and breathing very faintly from the west in the evening . After sunset it died away completely .