a quarter
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All right -- I quite understand that all I have heard is confidential . I shall tell Plummer nothing till I may -- indeed , as yet I have very little to tell that would help him . But I think it will be well to have the police within call -- we may want them at a moment 's notice ; I have no police powers , you see , and Plummer has the Denson case in hand . I will ask him to be here , at this house , before a quarter to eight , if you will allow me . '' And so the telegram went to Plummer , and Hewitt , accepting the rector 's invitation to an early dinner before starting on their visit , resigned himself to wait . He did not like the waste of time , as he frankly told Mr. Potswood . He would have preferred to see Mason at once , at any risk , and to take what means he thought necessary without delay .