eleven o'clock
His family consisted of a wife and two daughters -- handsome , lively young ladies with very fine , bright teeth that shone whenever they laughed , and with a-plenty to say for themselves . To this pleasant house Barnaby True was often asked to a family dinner , after which he and his good kind host would maybe sit upon the veranda , looking out towards the mountain , smoking their cigarros while the young ladies laughed and talked , or played upon the guitar and sang . A day or two before the _ Belle Helen _ sailed from Kingston , upon her return voyage to New York , Mr. Greenfield stopped Barnaby True as he was passing through the office , and begged him to come to dinner that night . -LRB- For within the tropics , you are to know , they breakfast at eleven o'clock and take dinner in the cool of the evening , because of the heat , and not at mid-day , as we do in more temperate latitudes -RRB- . `` I would , '' says Mr. Greenfield , `` have you meet Sir John Malyoe and Miss Marjorie , who are to be your chief passengers for New York , and for whom the state cabin and the two state-rooms are to be fitted as here ordered '' -- showing a letter -- `` for Sir John hath arranged , '' says Mr. Greenfield , `` for the Captain 's own state-room . '' Then , not being aware of Barnaby True 's history , nor that Captain Brand was his grandfather , the good gentleman -- calling Sir John `` Jack '' Malyoe -- goes on to tell our hero what a famous pirate he had been , and how it was he who had shot Captain Brand over t ` other side of the harbor twenty years before . `` Yes , '' says he , '' 't is the same Jack Malyoe , though grown into repute and importance now , as who would not who hath had the good-fortune to fall heir to a baronetcy and a landed estate ? ''