twenty minutes to seven
announced the poor invalid . `` Do go and look at the clock again , Barbara . '' Barbara Hare rose with a gesture of impatience , not suppressed , opened the door , and glanced at the large clock in the hall . `` It wants nine and twenty minutes to seven , mamma . I wish you would put your watch on of a day ; four times you have sent me to look at that clock since dinner . '' `` I am so thirsty ! '' repeated Mrs. Hare , with a sort of sob .