"Thou art a tardy bridegroom.

I thought that the bachelors of this quarter of the globe slept last night in Jamestown." His face fell.

"I know it," he said ruefully; "but my doublet had more rents than slashes in it, and Martin Tailor kept it until cockcrow.
That fellow rolls in tobacco; he hath grown rich off our impoverished wardrobes since the ship down yonder passed the capes.

After all," he brightened, "the bargaining takes not place until toward midday, after solemn service and thanksgiving.

There's time enough!" He waved me a farewell, as his great sail and narrow craft carried him past me.
I looked at the sun, which truly was not very high, with a secret disquietude; for I had had a scurvy hope that after all I should be too late, and so the noose which I felt tightening about my neck might unknot itself.