midnight
`` You will go up to the cove with me ? '' he asked as he paused a moment at the foot of the stairs . `` I shall enjoy it very much , '' she answered simply , `` and I have a favor I want to ask of you , which is , to let me make a sketch of you just where you sat the time your boat drifted away . '' When he retired it was long after he heard the clock downstairs strike the midnight hour before he failed to note the ocean 's voice beneath his window , and in his dreams he saw Telly 's face smiling in the firelight . `` I 'm goin ' to give ye a taste o ' mackerel fishin ' , '' said Uncle Terry the next morning after breakfast . `` We 'll go over to the fish house an ' ye can put on some oilers an ' save yer good clothes . '' On the way they met the well-remembered old lady Albert had first noticed at the prayer-meeting .