Catching the Tide

Catching the Tide. The king ends up leaving prematurely, to the consternation of More and Alice, without eating, and laughing as he leaves some of his courtiers on the bank. This may seem cruel, but one can see his point about needing to catch the tide. When the Oxford and Cambridge boat race happens in the same kinds of boats on the same stretch of water today, the tides are very important in determining who wins.