about eleven o'clock
But by midsummer the great shoals of mackerel went away , and with them the dark picturesque hookers , and the ugly steamers , and the inhabitants were once more left to their sleepy , old-fashioned , but withal pleasant life . Rosendale Manor was situated on high ground . It was surrounded by a wall , and the wide avenue was entered by ponderous iron gates . It was about eleven o'clock when the girls and their brother started gayly off for their day on the water . Loftus carried a couple of rugs , so that the fact of Mabel lugging a heavy picnic basket on her sturdy left arm did not look specially remarkable . They went down a steep and straggling hill , passed through an old-fashioned green , with the local club at one side , and a wall at the other which seemed to hang right over the sea . They soon reached the Long Quay , and made their bargain for the best boat to be had .