a quarter to eleven
She thinks I 'm not so much an angel as I look and is going to make me good . Oh , my stars -- let 's get . I shall be saying the catechism if I stop here any longer . '' Alban escaped from the Sporting Club at a quarter to eleven , sick of its fetid atmosphere and wearied by its mock brutalities . He made no apologies for quitting Willy Forrest -- for , truth to tell , that merry worthy was no longer capable of understanding them . Frequent calls for whisky-and-soda , added to a nice taste for champagne at dinner , left the Captain in that maudlin condition in which a man is first cousin to all the world -- at once garrulous and effusive and generally undesirable . Alban had , above all things , a contempt for a drunken man ; and leaving Forrest to the care of others of his kind , he went out into the street and made his way slowly eastward .