About two o'clock
`` How soon can we get into the cave ? '' `` Nom-de-Dieu , yes ! ... Voyons donc ! -- About two o'clock with a wet shirt . This wind will pile the water up , and the Race will be against us in the Gouliot . The sooner we 're off the better . '' He handed me a sum of money , packed into a basket all the eatables he could find and two bottles of wine , and lit a lantern , and we set off through the gusty night , past the deserted houses , past Beaumanoir all dark and dead , and so down into Havre Gosselin , where the waves were roaring white .