Twenty minutes to eleven
` Then you should be very successful , ' said Mrs. Fordyce , with a smile . ` Well , remember that nothing will give your father and me greater pleasure than to hear that you are engaged to Gladys Graham . ' ` Well , I 'd better get out of this . Twenty minutes to eleven ! By Jove , wonder what the governor would say if he were to pop in just now ? Thunder 's not in it . ' So the amiable and self-satisfied George took himself off to the mill , and all day long thought much of his mother 's advice , and somehow he felt himself being impelled towards paying another visit to Bourhill .