ten minutes past nine
There was an affectionate postscript to Lucien . `` What does this mean ? I do n't understand it , '' I said . `` It means that at ten minutes past nine I shall be dead . I have been forewarned , that is all . My father appeared to me last night and announced my death . '' He spoke so simply of this visit , that if it was an illusion it was as terribly convincing as the truth .