one o'clock
Some time since he had concluded that where Mary Fawcett failed he could not hope to succeed , but he had done his duty and lectured his cousin . He understood human nature from its heights to its dregs , however , and promised Hamilton his unaltered friendship , even while in the flood of remonstrance . He was a philosopher , who invariably held out his hand to the Inevitable , with a shrug of his shoulders , but he loved Rachael , and wished that the ship that brought Levine to the Islands had encountered a hurricane . The guests started for home at one o'clock , few taking the same path . The tired slaves went down to their huts . Rachael remained on the mountain , and Hamilton returned to her . It was a month later that Rachael , returning after a long ride with Hamilton , found her mother just descended from the family coach .