about five o'clock
Nothing that he could have said would have dried my tears so soon . Every spark of pride in me blazed up to reject the thought of turning craven now . Besides , I longed for a life of adventure most sincerely ; and I was soon quite happy again in the excitement of being so near to what I had longed for . The dew was still heavy on the grass when Fred and I crossed the drying-ground about five o'clock on Thursday morning , and scrambled through a hedge into our `` coastguard '' corner on the wharf . We did not want to be seen by the barge-master till we were too far from home to be put ashore . The freshness of early morning in summer has some quality which seems to go straight to the heart . I felt intensely happy .