twenty past seven
`` Between seven-thirty and arriving here , '' he said , drawing him on one side -- `` quick ! Tell me , whom did you see ? What opportunities were there of stealing the paper , and by whom ? '' `` I finished it at five and twenty past seven , '' the young man said , `` sealed it in an official envelope , and stood it up on my desk by the side of my coat and hat and muffler , which my servant had laid there , ready for me to put on . My bedroom opens out from my sitting room . While I was dressing , two men called for me -- Paul Jermyn and Count von Hern . They walked through to my bedroom first , and then sat together in the sitting room until I came out .