ten o'clock
The guests had gone . Roldan , Adan , and Rafael were alone on their side of the great house . They waited , kicking their heels together with leashed impatience , until eleven o'clock . The family and servants of Casa Encarnacion went to bed at ten o'clock , but it was the custom of Don Tiburcio to go the rounds a half or three quarters of an hour later and see that his strict laws were as strictly obeyed . To-night , when he opened the doors of the three young dons in succession , heels were still , and breathing was as monotonous as his own would be an hour later . At eleven the boys dressed and swung from their windows , not daring to leave by the courtyard . Nor did they dare go to the corral and abstract three horses .