a quarter to ten
Raffles gave me an approving nod . `` I 'm glad to see you spot the crux so quickly , Bunny . I have thought of your taking it round to your place first , under cloud of night ; but we are bound to be seen even so , and on the whole it would look far less suspicious in broad daylight . It will take you some twelve or fifteen minutes to drive to your bank in a growler , so if you are here with one at a quarter to ten to-morrow morning , that will exactly meet the case . But you must have a hansom this minute if you mean to prepare the way with those notes this afternoon ! '' It was only too like the Raffles of those days to dismiss a subject and myself in the same breath , with a sudden nod , and a brief grasp of the hand he was already holding out for mine . I had a great mind to take another of his cigarettes instead , for there were one or two points on which he had carefully omitted to enlighten me .