Quarter to four
`` Must be quite some after three , '' said Jimmy in a low voice . `` It was nearly three when we got our orders to come here . '' Roger took out a tiny pocket flash lamp , and , placing one finger over the bulb so that no rays would escape , held the dim glow over his wrist-watch . `` Quarter to four , '' he announced . `` Fifteen minutes more , '' sighed Dal . `` They 'll seem like fifteen years , though , Bob , '' commented Jimmy . A reaction , in the shape of silence , came upon the Khaki Boys -- `` five Brothers '' as they called themselves , for they had become that since their participation in the World War .