a quarter before eleven
There must be people in England now who knew the banker in India . I 'm going down to the resident magistrate , Mr. Austin ; the man who had Henry Dunbar , or the supposed Henry Dunbar , arrested last August . I shall leave the clothes in his care , for Joseph Wilmot will be tried at the Winchester assizes . The mail leaves Winchester at a quarter before eleven , ' added Mr. Carter , looking at his watch as he spoke ; ` so I have n't much time to lose . ' `` He took the bundle from the portmanteau , wrapped it in a sheet of brown paper which the waiter had brought him a few minutes before , and hurried away . I sat alone brooding over the fire , and trying to reason upon the events of the day . `` The waiter was moving softly about the room ; but though I saw him look at me wistfully once or twice , he did not speak to me until he was about to leave the room , when he told me that there was a letter on the mantelpiece ; a letter which had come by the evening post .