quarter to six
Is n't it too provoking ? I 've got to sit and listen to those two , clattering commissions and percentages and all , when I might be hearing Sheldon Corthell talk art and poetry and stained glass . I declare , I never have any luck . '' At quarter to six that evening Laura sat in the library , before the fireplace , in her black velvet dinner gown , cutting the pages of a new novel , the ivory cutter as it turned and glanced in her hand , appearing to be a mere prolongation of her slender fingers . But she was not interested in the book , and from time to time glanced nervously at the clock upon the mantel-shelf over her head . Jadwin was not home yet , and she was distressed at the thought of keeping dinner waiting . He usually came back from down town at five o'clock , and even earlier .