quarter to five
`` Sam , '' called the telephone girl , `` take this gentleman up to forty-three . '' `` Forty-three 's out . '' Sam partly shut the elevator door ; he had seen Forty-three 's rooms the night before , and he had the discretion of his race . `` Went out with a lady at quarter to five . '' Willy Cameron took a step or two toward the cage . `` You do n't happen to be lying , I suppose ? '' `` No , sir ! ''