twenty minutes past eight
`` Something must be wrong with my watch , '' she said . `` It ca n't be twenty minutes past eight . '' The same thing was wrong with Stephen 's expensive repeater , whose splendour he was ashamed to flaunt beside the modesty of the girl 's poor little timepiece . There remained now no reasonable doubt that it was indeed twenty minutes past eight , since by the mouths of two witnesses a truth can be established . `` How dreadful ! '' exclaimed Victoria , mortified . `` I 've kept you here all this time , listening to me . ''