seven o’clock
People were beginning to move towards the staircase . Below , the man stood ready to fling the rope . `` Let us go to the other landing and walk back across the stone bridge , '' he suggested . `` There is not time ; it is quite seven o'clock now . '' `` But I shall not again be with you , and there is something that I must say . '' `` You must say it here , then . '' The rope was thrown and caught , and every one aboard received the violent jolt that attends some boat-landings .