a quarter to six
`` And I am to do the job for you ? All right : Barkis is willin ' . '' And then they both laughed at the familiar words , for Colonel Godfrey loved and studied his Dickens as some men study their classics . `` Tell her to be at the entrance at a quarter to six , and I will be there . Well , I must be off , Erskine will be waiting for me . '' And the Colonel saluted Malcolm and marched off with his head in the air , while more than one fashionable lounger turned round to look at the fine soldierly figure . At this hour the refreshment-rooms at the Army and Navy Stores were generally crowded , and for two or three minutes Malcolm searched them vainly , before he discovered Mrs. Godfrey sitting alone at a table at the other end of the long room .