twenty minutes to three
After lunch he had the prince carefully cleaned , and then set him in an easy chair under his eye , to await the coming of his august sire , who would arrive about a quarter to three . Then he walked up and down the room working out the most effective presentation of his indictment of Pollyooly and the social entanglement . At intervals he gesticulated and muttered a phrase . He was making excellent progress with it and at five and twenty minutes to three he was at the end of it . The prince sat stolidly in the easy chair by the long windows . At twenty-four minutes to three the baron flung out the last damning phrase -LRB- with the appropriate splendid gesture -RRB- at his image in the looking-glass over the mantelpiece . Then he turned to beam triumphantly on his little charge .