twenty past two
What time is it now ? Twenty past two . And now ? It is still twenty past two . I asked him about his relatives , and neither he nor she had any . `` We have a friend -- '' he began and paused , and then rambled into a not very understandable story about a letter and a doll 's house and some unknown man who had bought one of his pictures , or was supposed to have done so , in a curiously clandestine manner . I could not quite follow the story .