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quarter to twelve
If the papers would mention the performance at all , they would dismiss it in three or four lines , bestowing perhaps a word of ridicule upon him . She was sure to see one paper , the one that the landlady 's daughter lent her every day . Mogley looked at the illuminated clock on the steeple across the way . A quarter to twelve . `` My love , '' he said , `` I promised Hexter I would meet him to-night at the Five A 's Club , to arrange about salary and so forth . I 'll be gone only an hour . Can you do without me that long ? ''