about nine o'clock in the evening
Not far from Cobo Bay , upon the solitary point of the Houmet of Vason Bay , two lovers were lingering , hesitating before they parted for the night . The young woman addressed the young man with the words , `` I am not going because I do n't care to stay with you : I 've a great deal to do . '' Their farewell kiss was interrupted by a good sized sailing boat which passed very near them , making for the direction of the Messellettes . Monsieur le Peyre des Norgiots , an inhabitant of Cotillon Pipet , was engaged about nine o'clock in the evening in examining a hole made by some trespassers in the hedge of his property called La Jennerotte , and his '' _ friquet _ planted with trees . '' Even while ascertaining the amount of the damage , he could not help observing a fishing-boat audaciously making its way round the Crocq Point at that hour of night . On the morrow of a tempest , when there is always some agitation upon the sea , that route was extremely unsafe . It was rash to choose it , at least , unless the steersman knew all the channels by heart .