nine o'clock
I have got you , John , and everything else is nothing . ' As he stooped in the dark to kiss her again among the rose-bushes , he felt that it was almost worth his while to have been in prison . After dinner there came a message to them across the ferry from Mr. Holt . Would they be so good as to walk down to the edge of the great dike , opposite to Twopenny Farm , at nine o'clock ? As a part of the message , Mr. Holt sent word that at that hour the moon would be rising . Of course they went down to the dike , -- Mr. Caldigate , John Caldigate , and Hester there , outside Mr. Holt 's farmyard , just far enough to avoid danger to the hay-ricks and corn-stacks there was blazing an enormous bonfire . All the rotten timber about the place and two or three tar-barrels had been got together , and there were collected all the inhabitants of the two parishes .