a quarter to ten
`` Any Bishop or anything ? '' Her mother replied , with a Pacific Ocean of endurance in her voice : -- `` Dr. Tuxford Somers is preaching at the Abbey . If you come , pray do not be late . The carriage will be ready at a quarter to ten . '' `` Well -- I shall have to go once or twice , so I suppose now will do for once . There 's Christmas Day , of course -- I do n't mind that . I shall go to Chorlton , and look at the two old ladies in church .