eleven o'clock
The message ran then : -- `` A widow dhak flower and bhusa -- at eleven o'clock . '' The pinch of bhusa enlightened Trejago . He saw -- this kind of letter leaves much to instinctive knowledge -- that the bhusa referred to the big heap of cattle-food over which he had fallen in Amir Nath 's Gully , and that the message must come from the person behind the grating ; she being a widow . So the message ran then : -- `` A widow , in the Gully in which is the heap of bhusa , desires you to come at eleven o'clock . '' Trejago threw all the rubbish into the fireplace and laughed . He knew that men in the East do not make love under windows at eleven in the forenoon , nor do women fix appointments a week in advance . So he went , that very night at eleven , into Amir Nath 's Gully , clad in a boorka , which cloaks a man as well as a woman .