But I should hardly think a boat would start, in the evening." "I don't know, Master Oswald.

I was down at the port, yesterday, and the tide was high at three o'clock; and methinks that a boat would put out an hour or two before low tide, so as to take the water with it as far as New Berwick, and there catch the flood flowing into the Firth.
In that case, the boat would put out at six, or maybe seven o'clock." "I would that it had been two hours later, Roger.

After dark, it were easy enough to silence a man without attracting much attention; but in broad daylight, it would not be so easily done." "Not if we went straight from the inn to the port, Master, but there is no need for you to take that route." "You are right, Roger.

Indeed, it would be better not to do so, for were they to have an idea that we had escaped by water, the earl might send a fast boat after us.

Therefore, when I come out I will turn off and go, by unfrequented streets and lanes, in the opposite direction.
In that way you will be better able to see if I am followed, and may find some quiet place, where you can give a man a clout on the head that will rid us of him." "Will you come out, Master Oswald, in your present attire, or in your disguise ?" "I will wear this cloak and headgear, and will put these leggings over the others, so that I shall have but to take them off and fling them aside, and to throw off my cloak and cap and put on this bonnet, all of which will not take a minute and can be done in a doorway or passage without attracting observation.