quarter to nine
`` I 'd no thought they 'd land before the day or to-morrow mornin ' , or I 'd have been over last night . I suppose she brought all the news from home ? '' `` The folks is all well , thanks be to God , '' proclaimed Mr. Duffy solemnly . '' ' T was late when she come ; ' t was on the quarter to nine she got here . There 's been great deaths after the winther among the old folks . Old Peter Murphy 's gone , she says , an ' his brother that lived over by Ballycannon died the same week with him , and Dan Donahoe an ' Corny Donahoe 's lost their old aunt on the twelfth of March , that gave them her farm to take care of her before I came out . She was old then , too . ''