quarter past ten
`` Once , '' said Georgia sadly . `` But it was in mid-year week , '' explained the roommate , `` the night before the Livy exam . She mended stockings all the evening and then she said she was going to sit up to study . She began at quarter past ten . '' `` Propped up in bed , to be quite comfortable , '' interpolated Georgia . `` And at half-past ten , '' went on her roommate , `` she said she was so sleepy that she could n't stand it any longer . So she tumbled the books and extra pillows on the floor and went to sleep . ''