ten minutes after two
`` A whole lot of things . Every minute filled up . '' `` All right , '' said George . `` The snow 's fine for sleighing : I 'll come for you in a cutter at ten minutes after two . '' `` I ca n't possibly go . '' `` If you do n't , '' he said , `` I 'm going to sit in the cutter in front of the gate , wherever you 're visiting , all afternoon , and if you try to go out with anybody else he 's got to whip me before he gets you . '' And as she laughed -- though she blushed a little , too -- he continued , seriously : `` If you think I 'm not in earnest you 're at liberty to make quite a big experiment ! ''