About half past seven
It is necessarily an expensive show , and consequently rather infrequent . Therefore whenever one of these exhibitions is to take place , the news goes about in the papers and Heidelberg is sure to be full of people on that night . I and my agent had one of these opportunities , and improved it . About half past seven on the appointed evening we crossed the lower bridge , with some American students , in a pouring rain , and started up the road which borders the Neunheim side of the river . This roadway was densely packed with carriages and foot-passengers ; the former of all ages , and the latter of all ages and both sexes . This black and solid mass was struggling painfully onward , through the slop , the darkness , and the deluge . We waded along for three-quarters of a mile , and finally took up a position in an unsheltered beer-garden directly opposite the Castle .