a quarter to twelve
Ward said . `` Exercise . Any room for another pig in the bottom of that cart ? '' `` Jump up , quick , '' Ward answered , `` it is a quarter to twelve , and jolly lucky there is a moon or I should have missed you . '' Bunny said that he was not going to hurry for any one , and wasted two or three valuable minutes before we got him safely into the cart . He was in an exceedingly bad temper , and it was only by dint of innumerable questions that we found that he had actually started to drive to Burtington and that something disastrous had happened on the journey . The exact nature of that disaster none of us ever discovered , but what Bunny wished us to believe was that he went to sleep and was driven into by a furniture van , and since he had been kind enough to start to Burtington we should have been a complete set of bounders if we had not suppressed Dennison when he said that no one was likely to believe such a tale as that .