five minutes to four
Hence the telegram . Moreover , if the case had been grave , she would not have put the telegram in the interrogative ; she would have written , ` Please come at once . ' No , Hilda was not unduly disturbed . Nevertheless , she had an odd idea that she ought to rush to the station and catch the next train , which left Knype at five minutes to four ; this idea did not spring from her own conscience , but rather from the old-fashioned collective family conscience . But at a quarter to four , when it was already too late to catch the local train at Turnhill , the men had not emerged from the inner room ; nor had Hilda come to any decision . As the departure of her mother and Miss Gailey had involved much solemn poring over time-tables , it happened that she knew the times of all the trains to London ; to catch the next and last she would have to leave Turnhill at _ 5.55 _ . She said that she would wait and see .