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past ten
`` On Monday evening you two young people parted at half past ten . How do you fix the time ? '' Doris answered without hesitation : `` The large window of Mr. Grant 's study was open , and we both heard a clock in the hall chime the half-hour . I said , ` Goodness me , is that half past ten ? ' and started for home at once . Mr. Grant came with me as far as the bridge . When I reached my room , in exactly five minutes after leaving The Hollies , I stood at the open window -- that window '' -- and she pointed to a dormer casement above the sitting-room -- `` and looked out .