a quarter past eleven
And so the knowledge that ye have no equal at hiding your deeds o ' darkness even in the licht o ' the railway-yard was as good to ye as Daffy 's Elixir . And when micht we reckon on getting notification from what I may presume to ca ' your double surpreese-packet ? '' He looked at his watch -- a well-used Waterbury , worn upon the silvered steel lip-strap of a cavalry bridle , and said : `` Ten o'clock . At a quarter past eleven I think we may count upon something . The driver of Engine 123 has given me the word of an Irishman from County Kildare ; and the stoker , a Cardiff man , and the guard , who hails from Shoreditch , are quite as keen as Kildare . '' `` You 're sending the stuff up North ? '' `` In the direction of the stretch of railway-line they 're busy wrecking , in the hope that it may come in useful . ''