one o'clock
The muscles stood out , then seemed to flow away , like the flowing water , on the arms under the bronze-coloured skin . And from lungs surely made of brass came forth the fierce songs that have been thrown back from the Nile 's brown banks perhaps since the Sphinx first set his unworldly eyes towards eternity . But though Isaacson deliberately paused to get himself very thoroughly and calmly in hand , paused to fight with possible prejudice and drive it out of him , he did not delay till the hour fixed by Mrs. Armine . Soon after one o'clock in the full heat of the day , he set out in the tiny tub which was the only felucca on board of the _ Fatma _ , and he took Hassan with him . Definitely why he took Hassan , he perhaps could not have stated . He just thought he would take him , and did . Very swiftly he had returned with the tide in the night .