ten o'clock in the evening
`` Take this woman away , '' he said ; `` see that she is properly cared for , and has a good dinner and a good bed . To-morrow she is to be taken to Señor Ibarra 's . '' Then he carefully closed the door after them , pushed the bolt , and approached his wife . It was ten o'clock in the evening . The first rockets were slowly going up in the dark sky , where bright-colored balloons shone like new stars . On the ridge-poles of the houses men were seen armed with bamboo poles , with pails of water at hand . Their dark silhouettes against the clear gray of the night seemed phantoms come to share in the gayety of men .