twenty-two
minutes past ten
`` Well -- he goes to-day ! At six o'clock -- '' `` At six o'clock ! '' Norma leaped from her bed , stood with clenched hands and wild eyes , thinking , in the middle of the floor . `` It 's twenty-two minutes past ten , '' she breathed . `` Where does he leave ? '' `` Rose and I were to see him at the Grand Central at quarter past five , '' his mother began , catching the contagious excitement . `` But , darling , I do n't know where you can get him before that !