two o'clock
`` No , my dear , I once taught Society a lesson it will not forget . I was thinking of your father , he is propriety itself . '' `` Quite right , Hil , we must not be seen and , as I think we have everything now , we had better lose no time in getting on board . '' Thus Hil and May , whom we shall know for the future as `` the girls '' went on board the _ Maranoa _ , and at two o'clock the good ship left the harbour for Brisbane . While the two steamers are ploughing their way to Brisbane , the one with the boys , the other with the girls , on board , it will not be amiss if the narrative pause for a moment for the purpose of presenting the reader with an ampler picture of the singular personality of Hil . Hilda Mannahill was the daughter of the late Samuel Mannahill , who died when she was ten years old . Three months later she lost her mother .