twenty minutes past one
Think you , how her pain would be doubled , did she but hear your wild words . Do not fear any of us , we are all devoted to this cause , and to-day shall see the end . The time is coming for action ; to-day this Vampire is limit to the powers of man , and till sunset he may not change . It will take him time to arrive here -- see , it is twenty minutes past one -- and there are yet some times before he can hither come , be he never so quick . What we must hope for is that my Lord Arthur and Quincey arrive first . '' About half an hour after we had received Mrs. Harker 's telegram , there came a quiet , resolute knock at the hall door . It was just an ordinary knock , such as is given hourly by thousands of gentlemen , but it made the Professor 's heart and mine beat loudly .