a quarter to nine o’clock
However , the first thing I am going to do is to get my baggage shifted from this place to Bede 's Inn . Good-bye for the present . I 'll write , you know , if I ca n't meet you . ' It now wanted a quarter to nine o'clock . When Knight was gone , Stephen felt yet more impatient of the circumstance that another day would have to drag itself away wearily before he could set out for that spot of earth whereon a soft thought of him might perhaps be nourished still . On a sudden he admitted to his mind the possibility that the engagement he was waiting in town to keep might be postponed without much harm . It was no sooner perceived than attempted .