a quarter to one in the morning
`` Mr. Berrington is not at all unlike Sir Aubrey , in build as well as in feature . '' '' ` Baron Poppenheimer ' and ` Sir Aubrey Belston , ' '' Jack said , `` who in private life are Jack Osborne and Michael Berrington . And if George disguises you and coaches you as well as he did me , I undertake to say that nobody will suspect that you are not actually Sir Aubrey Belston . '' At a quarter to one in the morning Cranmere 's big , grey , low-built car slid noiselessly along Wigmore Street and drew up at the entrance to one of the most imposing-looking houses in Cumberland Place . The imposing footman got down and rang the bell -- he pressed the button four times in succession , as `` Lord Cranmere '' had told him to do . Almost at once the door was opened , and from the car window we saw a tall man in knee-breeches silhouetted , while a little way behind him stood another man . `` Lord Cranmere '' stepped out of the car , and we followed him -- `` Baron Poppenheimer '' and `` Sir Aubrey Belston . ''