ten o’clock
Without a moment 's hesitation she got out of bed and lit a candle . The blue pencil was still lying on top of the jam pot which stood on the dressing table . Priscilla took it , and to avoid all possibility of mistake in the morning , wrote word `` inviolable '' on every one of her parcels . It was ten o'clock in the forenoon . Peter Walsh , having breakfasted , strolled down the street towards the quay . When he reached it he surveyed the boats which lay there with a long , deliberate stare . The Blue Wanderer was at her moorings .