midnight
You can trust me implicitly . I am an English sailor who was made to renounce my religion through torture , and I am now in service here ; but I have not forgotten my country . To escape , you must contrive to lower a thin cord from the window , the thinner the better , so that I can communicate with and send small articles to you . Leave this cord hanging from your window , at midnight on the third night from now , without fail ; I can do nothing until then . I have contrived to get this message concealed in your food on this one occasion , but I shall never be able to do so again . So you must somehow or another manage to lower to the ground the thin cord of which I told you . Without that I can not aid you .