twenty minutes to eleven
snorted the Squire . `` It 's Cicely who is going to worry . If she thinks she is going to behave like that in this house she is very much mistaken . '' Dick drove into Bathgate at twenty minutes to eleven . He always liked to give himself plenty of time to catch a train , but hated waiting about on the platform . So he stopped at the George Hotel and went into the hall for a whisky-and-soda . `` Oh , good evening , Captain , '' said the landlord , who was behind the bar .