eleven o'clock
How was he to begin his mission ? Without a word of Spanish he could n't even make it known . There was Andrés Escobar to consider : his father had told Charles that he knew a few words of English . Meanwhile , hungry , he went down to the eleven o'clock breakfast . * * * * * A ceremonious head waiter led him to a small table by a long window on the Parque , where , gazing hastily at the breakfasts around him , he managed , with the assistance of his waiter 's limited English , to repeat their principal features . These were fruit and salads , coffee flavored with salt , and French bread . Clear white curtains swung at the window in a barely perceptible current of air , and he had glimpses of the expanse without , now veiled and now intolerably brilliant .