nearly seven o’clock
Once inside the Alcázar I need not play upon the instrument ; but , said Olivero , it was well that I should be able to do so if called upon . My costume was to be a short _ chulo _ jacket and tight-hipped , loose-legged grey trousers , with a low-collared , unstarched shirt , and a broad-brimmed grey sombrero de Cordoba . With this hat , well tipped over my eyes , in moonlight or even spasmodic rose-and-gold bursts of coloured fire , recognition would be impossible at a distance ; and I meant to keep at a distance from all the Duke 's party -- with one exception . By the time the plan was mapped out , it was nearly seven o'clock , but the O'Donnels still urged me to dine at the Cortijo de Santa Rufina . The Gloria would eat up the six miles distance in ten minutes ; I could bathe and dress before 8.15 , when dinner would be ready -LRB- a telegram had been sent to the servants from Cordoba -RRB- , and rested and refreshed , I could start for Seville in the car again at half-past nine . So we flashed out across the Guadalquivir , by way of the bridge of Isabel Segunda , into that strange suburb which gave Trajan birth , and my family their name ; ancient Trajana , now Triana , town of potters , picadores , and gypsies . Dark-browed boys played _ toreros _ to our car as bull , their coats _ muletas _ , sticks their _ banderillas _ , yelling and springing lithely aside as the enemy rushed on them .