half past one
`` You know your own business best , of course , and if you think you can preserve what little intelligence you have by giving Thady Gallagher or some other fellow a present of your piano -- '' `` I think I can save myself from being turned into a gibbering maniac , '' said the Major , `` by making sure that you 'll never have the chance of composing music in my house again . Since eight o'clock this morning you 've been at it . I could hear you whenever I went , mixing up hymns and waltzes and things with ` God Save the King . ' I tried to get a bit of lunch at half past one , but I had to fly from the house . '' `` It 's over now anyhow , '' said Dr. O'Grady . `` And you need n't sell the piano . I 've given up the idea of producing a new version of that tune for the Lord-Lieutenant .