half past seven
`` I 'm driving over to the other side of the island . I 'll start at five , but I do n't expect I shall get back to dinner till late . '' They generally dined at seven . `` We 'd better make it half past seven then . '' `` I guess it would be as well . '' Mackintosh watched him knock the ashes out of his pipe . His vitality was rude and exuberant .