Twenty minutes to nine
`` Not a bad idea . You are always up to some cunning dodge . What 's the time ? '' `` Twenty minutes to nine . I 'll slip down the passage and tell Grace to go down and give him his breakfast . He wo n't say anything to her ; he knows well that since Fatty went to India she would n't see a soul if she could help it . '' `` Father never says anything to you either ; you tell him a lot of lies , and leave him to understand that I do everything . ''