five o'clock
Most of those who took part were of the race gifted in art and finance ; its children excelled in the music , and its fathers counted the gate-money during the last half of the programme , with an audible clinking of the silver on the table before them . Miss Triscoe was with her father , and Mrs. March was herself chaperoned by Mr. Burnamy : her husband had refused to come to the entertainment . She hoped to leave Burnamy and Miss Triscoe together before the evening ended ; but Miss Triscoe merely stopped with her father , in quitting the saloon , to laugh at some features of the entertainment , as people who take no part in such things do ; Burnamy stood up to exchange some unimpassioned words with her , and then they said good-night . The next morning , at five o'clock , the Norumbia came to anchor in the pretty harbor of Plymouth . In the cool early light the town lay distinct along the shore , quaint with its small English houses , and stately with come public edifices of unknown function on the uplands ; a country-seat of aristocratic aspect showed itself on one of the heights ; on another the tower of a country church peered over the tree-tops ; there were lines of fortifications , as peaceful , at their distance , as the stone walls dividing the green fields . The very iron-clads in the harbor close at hand contributed to the amiable gayety of the scene under the pale blue English sky , already broken with clouds from which the flush of the sunrise had not quite faded . The breath of the land came freshly out over the water ; one could almost smell the grass and the leaves .