a quarter past one
`` Why , nothing special has happened , '' I tried to persuade myself . `` Why am I so upset ? I wo n't go downstairs tomorrow , that 's all ; and that will be the end of our quarrel . '' At a quarter past one I went to bed . `` Have the visitors downstairs gone ? '' I asked Alexey as he was undressing me . `` Yes , sir , they 've gone . ''