six o'clock
Going as you now do , it will be best for you to assume somewhat more courtly garments in order to do credit to your mission . I have given orders that these shall be prepared for you , and that you shall be provided with a suit of armour , such as a young noble would wear . All will be prepared for you this afternoon . At six o'clock a ship will be in readiness to sail , and this will land you on the coast at the nearest point to Alkmaar . Should any further point occur to you before evening , speak to me freely about it . '' Ned retired depressed rather than elated at the confidence the prince reposed in him , and at the rank and dignity he had bestowed upon him . He questioned , too , whether he had not done wrong in not stating at once when the prince had , on his first joining him , set down his age at over eighteen , that he was two years under that age , and he hesitated whether he ought not even now to go to him and state the truth .