a quarter past eight
`` She was insolently truthful , but I 'm certain she would n't have hesitated at a whopping lie if it would have served her purpose . She was certainly _ rusée _ . '' `` Well , the dinner should be highly interesting with all these undercurrents . I 'll call for you at a quarter past eight . I must run now and do my column . '' Clavering , often satirical and ironic , was positively brutal that afternoon . The latest play , book , moving picture , the inefficiency of the New York police , his afflicting correspondents , were hacked to the bone .