two o'clock
It rained heavily all the morning , and the Duke , who , as may be imagined , was not generally given to spending his days in steamboat offices , was wonderfully and horribly bored . He smoked and kicked the chairs and read his novel , and was generally extremely uneasy , so that the clerks began to find him a nuisance , not having any idea that he was a real living swell . And still it rained , and the newspaper vendors looked in , all drizzly and wet , and the gay feathers of New York business seemed draggled . Suddenly -- it might have been at two o'clock -- there was a stir in the office , a rattling of feet on the board floor , and a sort of general revival . `` She 's in sight , '' a clerk called out to the Duke . His Grace stretched himself and departed . He had ascertained that the Custom-House tug did not start for two hours after the ship was sighted .