a quarter to five
`` Not but that I should like another nip with ye ; but the parish might lose confidence in me if I was seed here . '' `` Where be ye trading o ' t to to-day , then , Joseph ? '' `` Back to Weatherbury . I 've got poor little Fanny Robin in my waggon outside , and I must be at the churchyard gates at a quarter to five with her . '' `` Ay -- I 've heard of it . And so she 's nailed up in parish boards after all , and nobody to pay the bell shilling and the grave half-crown . '' `` The parish pays the grave half-crown , but not the bell shilling , because the bell 's a luxery : but ` a can hardly do without the grave , poor body .