ten minutes past noon
`` Else you might chance to get what you do n't like . '' `` Oh , they 're mad ! '' wailed Mrs Bosenna , and Dinah was heard to murmur , `` You 've pushed ' em too far , mistress : an ' do n't say as I didn ' warn you ! '' `` I -- I was only goin ' to suggest , gentlemen , '' urged the Hon. Secretary , `` it bein ' already ten minutes past noon , and everybody waitin ' for ` God Save the Queen . ' '' `` Hullo ! '' hailed a voice alongside , at the foot of the accommodation table ; and Mr Philp 's top hat , Mr Philp 's deceptively jovial face , Mr Philp 's body clad in mourning weeds , climbed successively into view . `` There , naybours ! ''