a quarter past four
`` Have you looked into all the rooms in that passage ? '' `` No , I only wanted to see -- Is not it very late ? I must go and dress . '' `` It is only a quarter past four '' showing his watch -- `` and you are not now in Bath . No theatre , no rooms to prepare for . Half an hour at Northanger must be enough . '' She could not contradict it , and therefore suffered herself to be detained , though her dread of further questions made her , for the first time in their acquaintance , wish to leave him .