a quarter to one
` Mon cher , I am sorry not to find you at home , but I 'll wait at the café at the corner till half-past twelve . It is now midi juste . ' That was the first . The second ran : ` I have waited till a quarter to one . Now I am going to the Bleu for luncheon . I shall be there till three . ' And each was signed with the initials , N.C. .