eleven o'clock
Trejago saw the meaning of the little bit of the glass . The flower of the dhak means diversely `` desire , '' `` come , '' `` write , '' or `` danger , '' according to the other things with it . One cardamom means `` jealousy ; '' but when any article is duplicated in an object-letter , it loses its symbolic meaning and stands merely for one of a number indicating time , or , if incense , curds , or saffron be sent also , place . The message ran then : -- `` A widow dhak flower and bhusa -- at eleven o'clock . '' The pinch of bhusa enlightened Trejago . He saw -- this kind of letter leaves much to instinctive knowledge -- that the bhusa referred to the big heap of cattle-food over which he had fallen in Amir Nath 's Gully , and that the message must come from the person behind the grating ; she being a widow . So the message ran then : -- `` A widow , in the Gully in which is the heap of bhusa , desires you to come at eleven o'clock . ''