quarter to ten
`` At least let me see you off , '' I urged at the door . `` I promise not to look at your ticket if you tell me the train ! '' `` The eleven-fifty from Euston . '' `` Then I 'll be with you by quarter to ten . '' And I left him without further parley , reading his impatience in his face . Everything , to be sure , seemed clear enough without that fuller discussion which I loved and Raffles hated . Yet I thought we might at least have dined together , and in my heart I felt just the least bit hurt , until it occurred to me as I drove to count the notes in my cigarette case .