thirteen minutes to six
`` And that you very properly submit to return to your proper home . And now , if I may offer a suggestion , it is that we take tea . Freed of its tannin , nothing , I think , is more refreshing and stimulating . '' `` There 's a train from Lyndhurst at thirteen minutes to six , '' said Widgery , unfolding a time table . `` That gives us about half an hour or three-quarters here -- if a conveyance is obtainable , that is . '' `` A gelatine lozenge dropped into the tea cup precipitates the tannin in the form of tannate of gelatine , '' said the clergyman to Miss Mergle , in a confidential bray . Jessie stood up , and saw through the window a depressed head and shoulders over the top of the back of a garden seat .