About eight o'clock
Fray Henriques sank back in his chair . Now he understood whom Inez meant by the noble relative of Morella , understood also that he had been trapped . `` On Sunday morning , '' he began in a hollow whisper , `` the procession will be formed , and wind through the streets of the city to the theatre , where the sermon will be preached before those who are relaxed proceed to the Quemadero . About eight o'clock it turns on to the quay for a little way only , and here will be but few spectators , since the view of the pageant is bad , nor is the road guarded there . Now , if a dozen determined men were waiting disguised as peasants with a boat at hand , perhaps they might -- '' and he paused . Then Peter , who had been watching and listening to all this play , spoke for the first time , asking : `` In such an event , reverend Sir , how would those determined men know which was the victim that they sought ? '' `` The heretic John Castell , '' he answered , `` will be seated on an ass , clad in a _ zamarra _ of sheepskin painted with fiends and a likeness of his own head burning -- very well done , for I , who can draw , had a hand in it .