four minutes past ten
It made me feel creepy ; it was uncanny . `` But for this change certain things would happen twelve days from now . For instance , Nikolaus would save Lisa from drowning . He would arrive on the scene at exactly the right moment -- four minutes past ten , the long-ago appointed instant of time -- and the water would be shoal , the achievement easy and certain . But he will arrive some seconds too late , now ; Lisa will have struggled into deeper water . He will do his best , but both will drown . '' `` Oh , Satan !