a quarter to five
Not daring to insist , she left her card , with a request that the Senator would call at the Grand Hôtel before dinner . She herself started for the Grand Hôtel , her heart quivering and groaning , the point of her shoe beating upon the little book against Freemasonry , which Donna Rosetta had forgotten . She would have liked the two sorrels to fly . It was a quarter to five , and at half-past four it was daily her duty to prepare Carlino 's medicine . Half an hour before she reached the Grand Hôtel Giovanni and Maria Selva arrived there . Young di Leynì arrived at the same time . He also had come to inquire for Signora Dessalle , and expressed his satisfaction at this meeting ; but he was far from cheerful .