eleven o'clock
Would you like us to send you some wedding-cake ? _ '' _ P. B. _ '' Blinders has certainly had the last dig , but his principal victim fails this time to wince or bellow under the point of his humour . With his big face changing from red to white , and from white to crimson half a dozen times in as many seconds , Captain Bingo says , refolding the paper and returning it with a shaky hand : `` Then she -- she -- '' A lump in his throat slides down and sticks . `` Gerevormed Kerk-time is eleven o'clock . '' The Colonel looks at his shabby Waterbury , as the brisk clatter of cantering horse-hoofs breaks up the Sabbath stillness of the Market Square , and an orderly , leading an officer 's charger , halts before Nixey 's door . `` The B.S.A. escort , with their man , are due to leave the gaol in ten minutes ' time . Here 's your orderly with your mount , and you 've eight minutes to change in . ''