seventeen minutes
past one
`` You have surely not forgotten the way you played fast and loose with me ? '' `` Ariadne , '' he was using the firm voice she knew so well , `` you must n't talk like that . '' `` But you did . Do n't you remember that dinner you gave when we went to the L -- 's ball and you never danced with me till seventeen minutes past one ? '' `` My dear , I was saving you up . The joy after all the duties . '' `` You never told me so . ''