about three o'clock in the afternoon
`` Quite sure , sir . '' And Lee said , `` You go on with Mr. Hamlyn , Dick , and do your duty , mind . '' I thought this odd ; but , knowing it was useless to ask questions of an old hand , or try to get any information which was not volunteered , I held my tongue and departed , taking Dick with me . I arrived at Captain Brentwood 's about three o'clock in the afternoon . I flatter myself that I made a very successful approach , and created rather a sensation among the fourteen or fifteen people who were sitting in the verandah . They took me for a distinguished stranger . But when they saw who it was they all began calling out to me at once to know how I was , and to come in -LRB- as if I was n't coming in -RRB- , and when at last I got among them , I nearly had my hand shaken off ; and the Doctor , putting on his spectacles and looking at me for a minute , asked what I had given for my hat ?