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quarter to ten
`` Just one full hour . She went from the breakfast table and got the paper out of her trunk . Then when she had seen the children off to school , and dressed to go out it was gone . She said that was just a quarter to ten . '' `` She 's sure of that , is she ? '' demanded Tom . `` Yes , '' replied Carl , `` because the grocer 's boy always comes along at just a quarter after nine for his orders , and he had been gone more than twenty minutes . ''