sixty minutes after five
`` By a miracle . Dinner is at six . '' `` Very well , dear . '' `` Yes ; but six in this house means sixty minutes after five and sixty minutes before seven . I mention this the first day because you are just come from a place where it means twenty minutes to seven ; also let me observe that I think I have noticed soup and potatoes eat better hot than cold , and meat tastes nicer done to a turn than -- '' `` To a cinder ? '' `` Ha ! ha !