a quarter past nine
`` It 's after eleven o'clock , and you 're just outside the Mission House . '' `` I 've been just outside the Mission House for an hour and three quarters , old chap , '' said Mr. Mousley solemnly . `` Most incompatible thing I 've ever known . I got back here at a quarter past nine , and I was just going to walk in when the house took two paces to the rear , and I 've been walking after it the whole evening . Most incompatible thing I 've ever known . Most incompatible thing that 's ever happened to me in my life , Lidderdale . If I were a superstitious man , which I 'm not , I should say the house was bewitched .