about nine o'clock
`` I will go , '' I said , and jumped up at once to see if , among the things I had left behind when I went away , I could find enough to rig myself out suitably to the occasion . My mother had a new blue guernsey just finished for me , a wonderful guernsey , when you think of it . She had , I think , gone on working at it , after the others had given me up , just to show her trust in Providence , and her dear eyes shone when she saw me in it . Loans from my grandfather , whose full stature I had now attained , and whose contribution was of importance , and from Krok , who would have given me one of his eyes if I had needed it , filled all my requirements , and I set off for Beaumanoir about nine o'clock as glad a man as any in Sercq that night . And oh , the sweetness of the night and all things in it . The solemn pulse of the great sea in Saut de Juan ; the voices of many waters in the Gouliot Pass ; the great dusky cushions of gorse studded with blooms that looked white under the moon ; the mingling in the soft salt air of the scent of hedge-roses and honeysuckle , of dewy , trodden grass and the sweet breath of cows -- ay , even the smell of the pigsties was good that night , and mightily refreshing after the dark Everglades of Florida . Aunt Jeanne 's hospitable door stood wide .