eleven o'clock
`` How fortunate ! And you are to have such a nice party . I will wear the hood and be the envy of everybody , '' said Miss Newville , putting it on , praising its beauty , and calling in her mother to make Rachel 's acquaintance and admire the gift . The launching of the ship was to be at flood-tide , eleven o'clock in the forenoon . Though in midwinter , the air was mild , as if a warm breath had been wafted landward from the Gulf Stream . There was a fever of excitement and preparation in the Brandon home . Dinah in the kitchen was taking pots of baked beans and loaves of brown bread smoking hot from the oven , filling baskets with crumpets and crullers .