ten minutes to four
As if everything were conspiring against them to-day , a heavy truck , loaded with boxes , got caught in the car-track right in front of them and blocked traffic for ten minutes . Gladys and Nyoda looked tragically at each other at this delay . Nyoda held up her watch significantly . It was ten minutes to four . Just then Gladys spied a man she knew in an automobile , slowly passing the car . She called to him through the open window . `` Will you take us in if we get off the car ? ''