half past six
`` Jake Peters asked me to tell you he ai n't coming back , '' he said . `` Mis ' Quimby is getting breakfast for you down at our house . You better pack up now and start down , I reckon . Your train goes at half past six . '' Mrs. Norton jumped up , proclaiming that she must be aboard that train at any cost . Miss Thornhill , the professor and Kendrick ascended the stairs , and in a moment Magee followed . He stepped softly into number seven , for the tragedy of the rooms was still in the air .