a quarter to ten
I loved to hear him speak enthusiastically of the Brotherhood of Man -- I , who knew the brotherhood of man was to the ape , the serpent , and the tiger -- and he seemed to find a pleasure in stealing a moment 's chat with me from his engrossing self-appointed duties . It is a pity humanity should have been robbed of so valuable a life . But it had to be . At a quarter to ten on the night of December 3rd he came to me . Naturally I said nothing about this visit at the inquest or the trial . His object was to consult me mysteriously about some girl . He said he had privately lent her money -- which she was to repay at her convenience .