nine o'clock
`` She wo n't get out of the volanta , '' Charles said thoughtfully ; `` and someone will have to bring out her refresco . We 'd better get there early and stand at the door . '' `` No hurry , '' the suave Jaime put in ; `` no one will leave here until after tattoo . '' At nine o'clock the drums and bugles sounded from various parts of the city . There was one more tune played directly under the palace windows , after which the band and its guards left briskly to the measure of a quickstep . Charles led the way through the crowd to the Prado and the Parque Isabel . A number of carriages were there before them , the occupants mostly eating ices , and the café was being rapidly filled .