About eight o'clock
She told me later that she was twenty -- which figure was enough for me to know , I suppose . Oh , I understand women . They are an open book to me . `` About eight o'clock the moon , immense and crimson , came up from behind the Maryland hills , and cast a lurid path upon the wavelets . The girls , or rather the ` Jewels , ' as I have since learned to think of them , huddled closer together , with a not too capacious shawl around them , for the wind was freshening considerably . For a while I stopped looking at them , being interested in the little stunts that are done on the boat as it passes Mount Vernon . The tolling of the bell and the dirge by the band absorbed all my attention .