ten o’clock
But to Father Concha the sum represented five hundred cups of black coffee denied to himself in the evening at the café -- five hundred packets of cigarettes , so-called of Havana , unsmoked -- two new cassocks in the course of twenty years -- a hundred little gastronomic delights sternly resisted season after season . ` Not enough , your hundred pesetas , reverendo , not enough , ' laughed the man . And Concha , who could drive as keen a bargain as any market-woman of Ronda , knew by the manner of saying it that Sebastian only spoke the truth when he said that he had other offers . ` See , reverendo , ' the man went on , leaning across the table and banging a dirty fist upon it , ` come to-night at ten o'clock . There are others coming at the same hour to buy my letter in the pink envelope . We will have an auction , a little auction , and the letter goes to the highest bidder . But what does your reverence want with a love letter , eh ? '