ten o'clock in the morning
`` I may well ask the same , senora , '' said Don Quixote ; `` and I do ask whether I shall be safe from being assailed and forced ? '' `` Of whom and against whom do you demand that security , sir knight ? '' said the duenna . `` Of you and against you I ask it , '' said Don Quixote ; `` for I am not marble , nor are you brass , nor is it now ten o'clock in the morning , but midnight , or a trifle past it I fancy , and we are in a room more secluded and retired than the cave could have been where the treacherous and daring AEneas enjoyed the fair soft-hearted Dido . But give me your hand , senora ; I require no better protection than my own continence , and my own sense of propriety ; as well as that which is inspired by that venerable head-dress ; '' and so saying he kissed her right hand and took it in his own , she yielding it to him with equal ceremoniousness . And here Cide Hamete inserts a parenthesis in which he says that to have seen the pair marching from the door to the bed , linked hand in hand in this way , he would have given the best of the two tunics he had . Don Quixote finally got into bed , and Dona Rodriguez took her seat on a chair at some little distance from his couch , without taking off her spectacles or putting aside the candle .