eleven
in the morning
This object could not be anything else but the second bulb , that is to say , the quintessence of all the hopes of the prisoner . When the nights threatened to be too cold , Rosa took in the flower-pot . Well , it was then quite evident she was following the instructions of Cornelius , who was afraid of the bulb being killed by frost . When the sun became too hot , Rosa likewise took in the pot from eleven in the morning until two in the afternoon . Another proof : Cornelius was afraid lest the soil should become too dry . But when the first leaves peeped out of the earth Boxtel was fully convinced ; and his telescope left him no longer in any uncertainty before they had grown one inch in height . Cornelius possessed two bulbs , and the second was intrusted to the love and care of Rosa .