8 A.M.
`` Are you quite sure ? '' came the eager demand . `` Well , there is nothing so uncertain as the sea but a young friend of mine said that those facts were signaled by wireless , and , to some extent , they governed his own movements . I myself can assure you that the _ Switzerland _ was limping along like a lame duck at 8 A.M. to-day . '' `` Ah , thank Heaven for that small mercy ! '' murmured the girl . For a few seconds she busied herself with gloves , veil , and hat-pins , and Curtis happened to glance at the overcoat , which he had placed over the back of a chair .