six minutes past two
The packer was dismantling the scales as a preliminary to laying them in the last suit-case . The clerk was fastening together the sheets which he had detached from the flimsy order-book . Number Three had taken a light overcoat from a chair and was putting it on . And the time was six minutes past two ... . And what of Jonah ? He and Harry would probably arrive about five minutes too late . I bit my lip savagely ... .