a quarter past five
After this formality Saniel began his report : `` We , the undersigned , Victor Saniel , doctor of medicine of the Paris Faculty , residing in Paris in the Rue Louis-le-Grand , after having taken an oath to fulfil in all honor and conscience the mission confided to us -- '' All the time that he was writing he paid attention to everything that was said , and did not lose one word of the concierge 's deposition . `` I am certain , '' she said , `` that from half-past five until now no one has gone up or down the stairs but the people who live in the house . '' `` But before half-past five ? '' `` I have told you that from a quarter past five until half-past I was not in my lodge . '' `` And before a quarter past five o'clock ? '' `` Several persons passed whom I did not know . '' `` Did any one among them ask you for Monsieur Caffie ? ''