a quarter to eight
At the last , I told the speaker that I was so tired of comments on my personal appearance that I should soon have to resort either to the dyer or the wigmaker . But here am I wasting your time and my own , and forgetting the poor little maid at home . Goodbye . I 'll call in passing , then , at a quarter to eight . Tom Craigie will probably be with me , he is very rabid on the subject . '' `` Craigie and I are quite old friends , '' said Charles Osmond . And then , as on the preceding night he had stood at the door while Erica crossed the square , so now involuntarily his eyes followed Raeburn .