ten minutes past six
I 'll tell you all about it , sir , '' cried Mr. Vernon 's housemaid ; `` sooner than be took up for perjuring , I 'll tell you everything . '' `` I thought so , '' said Mr. Carter ; `` but it is n't much you 've got to tell me . Mr. Dunbar came here this morning on horseback , between five and six ? '' `` It was ten minutes past six , sir , and I was opening the shutters . '' `` Precisely . '' `` And the gentleman came on horseback , sir , and was nigh upon fainting with the pain of his leg ; and he sent me to call up master , and master helped him off the horse , and took the horse to the stable ; and then the gentleman sat and rested in master 's little parlour at the back of the house ; and then they sent me for a fly , and I went to the Rose and Crown at Lisford , and fetched a fly ; and before eight o'clock the gentleman went away . '' Before eight , and it was now past three .