Eight o'clock
I soon fell asleep before Wemmick 's fire , and the Aged and I enjoyed one another 's society by falling asleep before it more or less all day . We had loin of pork for dinner , and greens grown on the estate ; and I nodded at the Aged with a good intention whenever I failed to do it drowsily . When it was quite dark , I left the Aged preparing the fire for toast ; and I inferred from the number of teacups , as well as from his glances at the two little doors in the wall , that Miss Skiffins was expected . Eight o'clock had struck before I got into the air , that was scented , not disagreeably , by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders , and mast , oar , and block makers . All that water-side region of the upper and lower Pool below Bridge was unknown ground to me ; and when I struck down by the river , I found that the spot I wanted was not where I had supposed it to be , and was anything but easy to find . It was called Mill Pond Bank , Chinks 's Basin ; and I had no other guide to Chinks 's Basin than the Old Green Copper Rope-walk . It matters not what stranded ships repairing in dry docks I lost myself among , what old hulls of ships in course of being knocked to pieces , what ooze and slime and other dregs of tide , what yards of ship-builders and ship-breakers , what rusty anchors blindly biting into the ground , though for years off duty , what mountainous country of accumulated casks and timber , how many rope-walks that were not the Old Green Copper .