eleven
o'clock
`` I thought that you were drowned like a rat , Master Guy ; and though Tom here told us that you could swim well , I never thought to see you again . '' Guy told him in a few words how he had escaped , and begged him to carry the news to his mistress . He was about to give him the address -- for up till now he had refrained from doing so , telling them that it was from no doubt of their fidelity , but that if by any chance one of them fell into the hands of the White Hoods they might endeavour to wring from them the secret , and it was therefore best that they should not be burdened with it -- but the man stopped him . `` The count told us that he would be at his booth at the fair at eleven o'clock , and that if any of us obtained any news we were to take it to him there . He said that there were several parties of White Hoods in the streets , and that as he went past he heard them say that the boy of whom they were in search was a messenger of some person of importance at court , and that doubtless the man who had rescued him was also in the plot , and that a strict watch was to be kept on the quarter both for the boy and for the man , who was said to be tall and young . Simon , who had been wounded by him , had declared that he knew him to be connected with the boy ; that he was a young man with dark hair , and was in the habit of using disguises , sometimes wearing the dress of an apprentice , and at other times that of a butcher 's assistant . He said that he was about twenty-three . ''