eleven o'clock
Mr. Greenfield , Mr. Hartright 's correspondent and agent in these parts , lived in a fine brick house just out of the town , on the Mona Road , his family consisting of a wife and two daughters -- brisk , lively young ladies with black hair and eyes , and very fine bright teeth that shone whenever they laughed , and with a plenty to say for themselves . Thither Barnaby True was often asked to a family dinner ; and , indeed , it was a pleasant home to visit , and to sit upon the veranda and smoke a cigarro with the good old gentleman and look out toward the mountains , while the young ladies laughed and talked , or played upon the guitar and sang . And oftentimes so it was strongly upon Barnaby 's mind to speak to the good gentleman and tell him what he had beheld that night out in the harbor ; but always he would think better of it and hold his peace , falling to thinking , and smoking away upon his cigarro at a great rate . A day or two before the Belle Helen sailed from Kingston Mr. Greenfield stopped Barnaby True as he was going through the office to bid him to come to dinner that night -LRB- for there within the tropics they breakfast at eleven o'clock and take dinner in the cool of the evening , because of the heat , and not at midday , as we do in more temperate latitudes -RRB- . `` I would have you meet , '' says Mr. Greenfield , `` your chief passenger for New York , and his granddaughter , for whom the state cabin and the two staterooms are to be fitted as here ordered -LSB- showing a letter -RSB- -- Sir John Malyoe and Miss Marjorie Malyoe . Did you ever hear tell of Capt. Jack Malyoe , Master Barnaby ? '' Now I do believe that Mr. Greenfield had no notion at all that old Captain Brand was Barnaby True 's own grandfather and Capt. John Malyoe his murderer , but when he so thrust at him the name of that man , what with that in itself and the late adventure through which he himself had just passed , and with his brooding upon it until it was so prodigiously big in his mind , it was like hitting him a blow to so fling the questions at him .