ten minutes to five
It brought Sir Isaac suddenly into the picture . `` By half-past five , '' she said with just the faintest flavour of interrogation . Mr. Brumley looked at his watch . It was ten minutes to five . `` Waiter , '' he said , `` how do the trains run from here to Putney ? '' `` I do n't _ think _ , sir , that we have any trains from here to Putney -- '' An A.B.C. Railway Guide was found and Mr. Brumley learnt for the first time that Putney and Hampton Court are upon two distinct and separate and , as far as he could judge by the time-table , mutually hostile branches of the South Western Railway , and that at the earliest they could not get to Putney before six o'clock . Mr. Brumley was extremely disconcerted .