a quarter to ten
You chauffeurs ! '' She fairly drove him about his business . All the same , before the day was over she had wheedled a promise from Anthony that , master and mistress permitting , he would go to the dance . The Bumbles were duly approached , and consented readily to the projected exodus , asking solicitously if a quarter to ten would be early enough for the four to leave The Shrubbery , and offering the use of the Ford before this was sought . Considering that they were not upon the visiting list of Lady Touchstone , or , for that matter , upon that of any other of their domestics ' friends , their readiness to facilitate the excursion must be accounted to them for righteousness of a calibre rare indeed . The night of the dance came , and the stars with it . All the company of heaven twinkled and flashed out of a windless sky .