ten minutes past ten
`` Here 's the four-wheeler ! '' exclaimed Mrs. Dredge . `` Good-bye , ladies . If I 'm not in at ten minutes past ten do n't look for me until the morning . '' When Mrs. Dredge , Primrose , Jasmine , and Poppy got back to the girls ' pretty sitting-room the good-natured little widow proved herself a very practical friend . First of all , she listened carefully to Poppy 's account of all that had transpired that day . She then got Primrose to tell her as much as possible about Daisy .