Tuesday night, about nine
o'clock
They could send that easier to the President than they could send a whole door . '' `` You may make as much fun as you please , '' said Rectus , `` but I 'm going to write it out now . '' And so he did , in big letters , on half a sheet of foolscap . We started out on our storming expedition on a Tuesday night , about nine o'clock ; we had a latch-key , so we could come home when we pleased . Rectus carried the rope , and I had the grapnel , wrapped in its cotton wool . We put newspapers around these things , and made pretty respectable packages of them . We did not go down the sea-wall , but walked around through some of the inner streets .