a quarter past twelve
`` Driver -- '' A tremendous business ! For in addition to making the purchases he had to feed his flock in an A.B.C. shop , where among the unoccupied waitresses Maisie and her talkative , winking doll enjoyed a triumph . Still there was plenty of time . At a quarter past twelve he was displaying the varied landscape beauties of the park to his family . Ralph insisted on going to the bridge over the lake , and Robert silently backed him . And therefore the entire party went . But Maisie was afraid of the water and cried .