a quarter to eight
The fatuity of vicious and coroneted youth outstripped his discretion . `` There 's a devilish pretty girl , you know , at ` The Green Man ' at Little Barton ; I do n't know whether I can get away in time . '' Dick stuffed his bast in his pocket , and muttered things uncomplimentary to Banstead . `` Dinner 's at a quarter to eight . You can take it or leave it , '' said he . `` I suppose I 've jolly well got to take it , '' said Banstead , unruffled . `` Anything 's better than going through dinner from soup to dessert all alone under the fishy eye of that butling image of a Jenkins .