ten o'clock
His return was not expected until late . At first Giovanni feared that , in leaving the consummation of his plot until the eleventh hour , he had left it too late . In his anxiety he at once set out on foot , as he was , for the villa of Madonna Giovanna de Catanei . He reached it towards ten o'clock that night , to be informed that Gandia was there , at supper . The servant went to bear word to the Duke that a man in a mask was asking to see him , a message which instantly flung Gandia into agitation . Excitedly he commanded that the man be brought to him at once . The Lord of Pesaro was conducted through the house and out into the garden to an arbour of vine , where a rich table was spread in the evening cool , lighted by alabaster lamps .