ten o'clock
Therefore she plied her wicked wits to force an issue more germane to her desires . The course she took was fraught with a certain peril . Yet confident that at worst she could justify it , and little fearing that the worst would happen , she boldly went to work . She forged next day a brief note in which the Princess Sophia urgently bade Königsmark to come to her at ten o'clock that night in her own apartments , and with threat and bribe induced the waiting woman of the glove to bear that letter . Now it so happened that Königsmark , through the kind offices of Sophia 's maid-of-honour , Mademoiselle de Knesebeck , who was in the secret of their intentions , had sent the Princess a note that morning , briefly stating the urgency of departure , and begging her so to arrange that she could leave Herrenhausen with him on the morrow . He imagined the note now brought him to be in answer to that appeal of his . Its genuineness he never doubted , being unacquainted with Sophia 's writing .