nine o'clock
`` How much shall we want , Erebus ? '' `` You 'd better have two pounds and be on the safe side , '' said Erebus . The Terror transferred two sovereigns from the purse of the princess to his own . Then he arranged that she should meet him outside the door of the peach-garden at nine o'clock , or thereabouts at night . He would wait half an hour that she might not have to hurry and perhaps arouse the suspicion that she had gone of her own free will . He made several suggestions about the manner of her escape . When she left them , they rode straight to Rowington and set about purchasing her outfit .