five minutes to four
`` You mean you write for newspapers ? '' `` Yes ; that is , I get what crumbs fall from the press _ men 's _ table . They get the best work and the best pay ; but I can work as well as most of them , and sometimes mine goes in in place of what some idle , pleasure-loving scamp has neglected . Let me see '' -- pulling out her watch -- `` five minutes to four . I must not stay . I have to look in at Mrs. Rayner 's studio ; she has a reception , and will want a mention of it . Then there are Sir Charles Goodman 's training schools for deaf-mutes and the new Art Photography Company 's rooms to run through before I go to the House of Commons to do my ` Bird 's - eye View ' letter for the Australian mail to-morrow . ''