eight
o'clock
`` The first thing to do was to get a rope . This I carried to a quiet place on the wall , knotted it , and put it round me under my doublet . Then there was nothing to do but to wait . I went several times to hear if Jacques had any news , and was glad when he told me that most of the troops were ordered to be under arms , at eight o'clock . This would make matters simpler for me for , with numbers of people going in and coming out of the castle , it would be easy to slip in unnoticed . `` As soon as it was dark , Jacques and I went down a lane ; and he gave me his steel cap and breast piece , and took my cap in exchange . Then I went up towards the castle .