five o'clock
It also has the recommendation of being nearer to the sea than its sister mountain . On the south side , by a long slope , it comes nearly to the water , and the longing that the visitor to Bar Harbor has to see the ocean is moderately gratified . The prospect is at once noble and poetic . Mrs. Pendragon informed Mr. King that he and Miss Lamont and Mr. Forbes were included in the watermelon party that was to start that afternoon at five o'clock . The plan was for the party to go in buckboards to Eagle Lake , cross that in the steamer , scramble on foot over the `` carry '' to Jordan Pond , take row-boats to the foot of that , and find at a farmhouse there the watermelons and other refreshments , which would be sent by the shorter road , and then all return by moonlight in the buckboards . This plan was carried out . Mrs. Cortlandt , Mrs. Pendragon , and Mrs. Simpkins were to go as chaperons , and Mr. Meigs had been invited by Mrs. Cortlandt , King learned to his disgust , also to act as a chaperon .