a quarter past eleven
I do not make notes on persons . '' `` All authors say that , '' answered the Baron , shrugging his shoulders with the assumed good-nature which so rarely forsook him , `` and they are right ... . At any rate , it is fortunate that you had something to write , for we shall both be late in arriving at a rendezvous where there are ladies ... . It is almost a quarter past eleven , and we should have been there at eleven precisely ... . But I have one excuse , I waited for my daughter . '' `` And she has not come ? '' asked Dorsenne .