a quarter to ten
`` You 'd never notice anything , '' said Annie . `` You 're too eager to be off with Miriam . '' `` Oh , am I -- and any worse than you with Leonard ? '' `` _ I _ was in at a quarter to ten . '' There was silence in the room for a time . `` I should have thought , '' said Mrs. Morel bitterly , `` that she would n't have occupied you so entirely as to burn a whole ovenful of bread . '' `` Beatrice was here as well as she . ''