about eleven o’clock
The Vizier , moreover , like one long incarcerated , was skeletonized of form , cadaverous and sallow of countenance , and grew upon her face , as all right prisoners in royal custody grow , a thick covering of greyish down . A second known inhabitant of the Sultana 's quarters was Mr. Ponders , her butler , who sometimes slid into the classrooms in a very eerie way with messages and whom Rosalie came to know strangely well ; a third , but he did not exactly live in the awful regions , was the Sultana 's husband . The Sultana 's husband lived in two rooms over the stable . From the front classroom windows he was to be seen every morning disappearing through the front gates at about eleven o'clock ; very shiny top hat ; very tight tail coat ; very tight grey trousers ; very tight yellow gloves ; very tight grey-yellow moustache ; very tight pasty face ; curiously constricted , jerky gait as though his boots , too , were very tight . Precisely the sort of chronic , half-tipsy hanger-on one used to see in billiard rooms or eating cloves in West End bars . By association of ideas with the orientalism of Sultana he was called by the girls the Bashibazook . Junior to Miss Ough , the vizier , were four or five other mistresses , all known by nicknames .