nine o'clock before
It 's nearly high tide now . '' `` All right , captain ; it 'll do just as well to go up river to-night . '' `` Amen , '' said the captain . But now Mrs. Watson insisted on their staying to tea , and so it happened that it was after nine o'clock before they were ready to go on board the Antelope . Going down to the shore , they found the boat ready , with some articles which Captain Corbet had procured . `` I 've been fixing the gunwales , '' said he ; `` an here 's a box of pilot-bread . We were gettin out of provisions , an I 've got in a supply , an I 've bought a bit of an old sail that 'll do for a jib .