five o'clock
`` Most of us Europeans who were left collected in the veranda in front of the barracks -- you know , between the great gate and the southeast bastion . Scarce a man of us but was wounded . There we were unmolested , for the enemy , as soon as they burst into our private rooms , made busy with their spoil ; and , as it appeared , the Nawab had given orders that we were to be spared . `` At five o'clock he came into the fort in a gay litter and held a durbar in our Council room , Mir Jafar salaaming before him and making fulsome compliments on his great victory . Then the wretch sent for Mr. Holwell . We bade him farewell ; sure we thought we should never see him more . But he returned to us presently , and told us the Nawab was vastly enraged at the smallness of the treasure he had found ; the stories of the French had led him to expect untold wealth .