half past one
They 'll send your luggage on from Paddington if you write ; and in the meantime Gracie 's got some things here that you can have . '' `` I 'll have to send a wire to Daddy . '' `` I 'll do that . You come to my diggings at half past one , and I 'll settle you in . Until then , you 'd better stay up here . '' When he had gone she roamed a little farther , and lay down on the short grass , where the chalk broke through in patches . She could hear a distant rumbling , very low , travelling in that grass , the long mutter of the Flanders guns .