a quarter to nine
And if they wanted to see the sight of their lives they were to come into town at once . St. James 's was packed with people from Whitehall to Buckingham Palace . It was like nothing on earth , and they must n't miss it . She 'd wait for them in Grafton Street till a quarter to nine , but not a minute later . Nicky got out his big four-seater Morss car . They packed themselves into it , all six of them somehow , and he drove them into London . They had a sense of doing something strange and memorable and historic .