a quarter to eight o'clock
`` If I 'd had a brother or a cousin whom I had n't seen for a year , and who was just off to the front , I declare I 'd have done it myself . I do n't blame her ! But there 'll be a row if Bunty does n't hear her scales going . '' Exactly at a quarter to eight o'clock a Daimler car whisked through the village , and stopped by the gate of Pendlemere Abbey . A small figure hopped from it , and the chauffeur handed out a bicycle , then drove away at full speed . Girl and bicycle crept through the laurels to the side door , whence the former fled upstairs like a whirlwind . From the intermediates ' room came the strains of the Beethoven sonata with which Loveday was at present wrestling .