midday
She had an exaggerated form of fiddle bow , a long bowsprit and two tall masts on which sails might easily have been set . Gorman is nothing of a sailor and is almost totally uninterested in ships . This steamer must have been very old-fashioned indeed to have struck him as being odd . She arrived in the harbour at midday and splashed about a good deal with her paddles as if she were rather pleased with herself and thought she had a right to the admiration of the islanders . There was only one modern thing about her . The splayed-out wires of a Marconi installation stretched between her masts . Gorman was sitting with Donovan when the steamer arrived .