a quarter past
ten
But it seems I could n't . '' `` You ? You can afford anything -- anything . All the same -- '' `` Well , if I can afford to sit with you , out here , at a quarter past ten , on this old heathenish piazza , I suppose I can . '' `` All the same -- '' he insisted . She meditated again . `` All the same , if it was n't those roses , I ca n't think what it was . ''