eleven o’clock
`` Just give me the tap , '' Max answered ; `` I am an expert . The beer in the casks will be just as fresh to-morrow as it is to-day . '' And when Paul had done his bidding , he turned his back on him and went away . At eleven o'clock the candles round the coffin were blown out -- every one retired to rest . Paul found that there was no bed left for him , and climbed into the hay-loft , where he sat upright all night buried in thought . At ten o'clock in the morning the first guests arrived , and , indeed , such guests as had neither accepted the invitation nor been expected at all . When Paul saw them coming his first thought was , `` Have I provided enough food and drink ? ''