noon
Likely as not she 's rowed over to Plymouth and forgotten us entirely . Let 's go up and see if we can see her from the top of the rocks . '' Accordingly they climbed to the highest point . It was high noon now , by the sun , and very hot . Not a sail was in sight , nor even a rowboat anywhere . Everybody had evidently been driven in by the heat , which was intense . The tide was going out , and soon a mud-flat would lie between them and the home shore .