noon
When Bias and his master were again released , Ledscha was standing , in the dusk of evening , at the foot of the mainmast , pressing her brow against the wood as if she needed some support to save herself from falling . She checked Myrtilus 's words with an imperious `` Let me alone ! '' The next day she had paced restlessly up and down the deck like a caged beast of prey , and would permit no one to speak to her . At noon Hanno was about to get into a boat to go to her father 's ship , and she insisted upon accompanying him . But this time the corsair seemed completely transformed , and with the pitiless sternness , which he so well knew how to use in issuing commands , ordered her to remain on the Hydra . She , however , by no means obeyed her husband 's mandate without resistance , and , at the recollection of the conflict which now occurred between the pair , in which she raged like a tigress , the narrator 's cheeks crimsoned . The quarrel was ended by the powerful seaman 's taking in his arms his lithe , slender wife , who resisted him with all her strength and had already touched the side of the boat with her foot , and putting her down on the deck of his ship .