Ten minutes to eight
`` Ah ! '' But he refrained from adding , `` Your people ! '' for Hubert Totteridge had not been dead a year . `` Ten minutes to eight ! You keep me talking here ; it 's time I was in my bath . '' Clad in pyjamas with a very wide blue stripe , grey-eyed , grey-moustached , slim and erect , he paused at the door . `` The girls have n't a scrap of imagination .