twenty minutes after three
Taking Nap along , he somehow felt , was a wise precaution . He did n't know what mad thing you might expect of Grandma , the Demon , but surely nothing very discreditable could occur in the presence of that innocent dog . And he would play the waiting game ; make 'em show their hands . At twenty minutes after three he wondered if he might n't reasonably disappear . He would walk in the park and say afterward -- if there should be an afterward -- that he had given them up . An easy way out . He would do it .