two o'clock
Think of that ! Observe how much a reputation was worth in such a country . These people had seen me do the very showiest bit of magic in history , and the only one within their memory that had a positive value , and yet here they were , ready to take up with an adventurer who could offer no evidence of his powers but his mere unproven word . However , it was not good politics to let the king come without any fuss and feathers at all , so I went down and drummed up a procession of pilgrims and smoked out a batch of hermits and started them out at two o'clock to meet him . And that was the sort of state he arrived in . The abbot was helpless with rage and humiliation when I brought him out on a balcony and showed him the head of the state marching in and never a monk on hand to offer him welcome , and no stir of life or clang of joy-bell to glad his spirit . He took one look and then flew to rouse out his forces .