three
o'clock
An hour later , when I wriggled through the port-hole and slipped into the sea , I knew all : the reasons for my abduction , the means employed , the object in view and the infamous scheme plotted during the last three months against the Duc de Sarzeau-Vendôme and his daughter . Unfortunately , it was too late . I was obliged , in order not to be seen from the yacht , to crouch in the cleft of a rock and did not reach land until mid-day . By the time that I had been to a fisherman 's cabin , exchanged my clothes for his and come on here , it was three o'clock . On my arrival . I learnt that Angélique 's marriage was celebrated this morning . '' The old duke had not spoken a word .