a quarter to two
Then Ellerby , who had gone on again instead of Grant , beat the less steady of the pair with a ball that pitched on the middle stump and shot into the base of the off . A hundred and twenty had gone up on the board at the beginning of the over . That period which is always so dangerous , when the wicket is bad , the ten minutes before lunch , proved fatal to two more of the enemy . The last man had just gone to the wickets , with the score at a hundred and thirty-one , when a quarter to two arrived , and with it the luncheon interval . So far it was anybody 's game . The Ripton last-wicket man was de Freece , the slow bowler . He was apparently a young gentleman wholly free from the curse of nervousness .