about a quarter past twelve
`` Things may cost more than he expects . At any rate , please hand these to him . I can arrange matters with him when I see him . `` Then at about a quarter past twelve we will sally out . We will walk on now , lest any of the warders should happen to notice that we have been a long time on this part of the wall . '' Ryan had understood but little of what was happening and , when Terence told him what had been arranged , he exclaimed : `` Well , after this , Terence , I will never say a word against a Frenchman . Here are these soldiers going to run a lot of risk , and a certainty of getting into a row for us , merely because we did the best we could against those wretched Spaniards ; and without getting any reward whatever , for they must know that prisoners are not likely to have any money to spare about them . ''