about a quarter to ten
All this Arthur remembered now , and , carrying his mind a day or two further back , he recalled Mr Bickers 's uninvited visit to the house -- Arthur had painful cause to remember it -- and Railsford 's evident resentment of the intrusion , and the threatenings of slaughter which had been bandied about between the two houses ever since . `` Why , '' said Arthur to himself , `` it 's as clear as a pikestaff . I see it all now . Bickers said it was about a quarter to ten when he was collared . No fellows would be about then , and certainly no one would know that he would be passing our door , except Marky . Marky must have been actually hanging about for him when I passed ! What a pity I did n't stop to see the fun !