ten o'clock
`` If otherwise , he should have been struck down by the Avenging Angel . '' We got back to the chateau without more talk , and I was locked in , while my guards retired . As soon as they had gone I got to work , for my great enterprise was at hand . At ten o'clock I was ready for the venture . When the critical moment came , I was so arrayed that my dearest friend would not have known me . My object was to come out upon my guards as La Jongleuse , and , in the fright and confusion which should follow , make my escape through the corridors and to the entrance doors , past the sentinels , and so on out . It may be seen now why I got the woman 's garb , the sheet , the horsehair , the phosphorus , the reeds , and such things ; why I secured the knife and pistol may be guessed likewise .