about five in the afternoon
But they had been injured by being knocked about or thrown from their berths , or they had been caring for friends or relatives who were ill . Several of them paused at my side on their way to and from their cabins to indulge in these artless confidences . It remained , however , for Aunt Nancy to make the most interesting of all . She came along the deck about five in the afternoon and dropped with serene satisfaction into the empty steamer-chair at my right . She was fully dressed in the inevitable black , even to her wide bonnet . With a sigh of pleasure she folded her mittened hands and began to talk . `` It 's been real interestin ' , '' she said .