a quarter to eight
Just let me know when you 're ready , and I 'll go right along with you . '' But the twins stared at her again in an amazing and overbearing fashion , and vouchsafed no reply . Connie , however , determined to keep a watchful eye upon them , and when they started barnward , she would trail closely along in their rear . It was a quarter to eight , and fearfully dark , when she suddenly remembered that they had been up-stairs an unnaturally long time . She rushed up in a panic . They were not there . She ran through the house .