quarter to eleven
If the ferrets could be extracted from their present tight corner , O'Hara was the man to do it . O'Hara had not made his offer of assistance in any spirit of doubt . He was certain that he could do what he had promised . For it had not escaped his memory that this was a Tuesday -- in other words , a mathematics morning up to the quarter to eleven interval . That meant , as has been explained previously , that , while the rest of the school were in the form-rooms , he would be out in the passage , if he cared to be . There would be no witnesses to what he was going to do . But , by that curious perversity of fate which is so often noticeable , Mr Banks was in a peculiarly lamb-like and long-suffering mood this morning .