about a quarter to three
`` You vill nod go , '' said the baron firmly . His young charge said no more ; he only looked at his beaming preceptor with eyes cold with the steeliest contempt . The baron failed to grasp the purport of the look . After lunch he had the prince carefully cleaned , and then set him in an easy chair under his eye , to await the coming of his august sire , who would arrive about a quarter to three . Then he walked up and down the room working out the most effective presentation of his indictment of Pollyooly and the social entanglement . At intervals he gesticulated and muttered a phrase . He was making excellent progress with it and at five and twenty minutes to three he was at the end of it .