half after six
`` It was the truth . '' `` Naturally , '' said Lieutenant Fraser-Freer . `` But -- er -- as a matter of fact , we are here to ask that you alter your testimony . Could you , as a favor to us who have suffered so cruel a loss -- a favor we should never forget -- could you not make the hour of that struggle half after six ? '' I was quite overwhelmed . `` Your -- reasons ? '' I managed at last to ask .