About four o’clock
I spent a warm and peaceful afternoon . We caught between us about twenty pounds of cod and lythe , and out in that dancing blue sea I took a cheerier view of things . Above the white cliffs of the Ruff I saw the green and red of the villas , and especially the great flagstaff of Trafalgar Lodge . About four o'clock , when we had fished enough , I made the boatman row us round the yacht , which lay like a delicate white bird , ready at a moment to flee . Scaife said she must be a fast boat for her build , and that she was pretty heavily engined . Her name was the _ Ariadne _ , as I discovered from the cap of one of the men who was polishing brasswork . I spoke to him , and got an answer in the soft dialect of Essex .