noon
`` The arrangement is made . Carew is the only missing link . Excuse me , and I will go in search of him . '' It was high noon when the Dunottar Castle finally weighed anchor at Funchal and started on her long , unbroken voyage to the southward . Side by side in the stern , Weldon and Ethel looked back at the blue harbor dotted with the myriad little boats , at the quaint town backed with its amphitheatre of sunlit hills and , poised on the summit , the church where Nossa Senhora do Monte keeps watch and ward over the town beneath . Ethel 's experience was the broader for her hilarious ride in a bullock-drawn palanquin . Weldon 's experience was more instructive .