five minutes to ten
The following week , when cricket was resumed , no molestation was offered . The better part of the working-classes who inhabited the neighbourhood were indeed strongly in favour of the `` boys , '' and liked to see their bright young faces as they passed home from their cricket ; the pluck too with which they had fought was highly appreciated , and so strong a feeling was expressed against the attack made upon them , that the rough element deemed it better to abstain from further interruption , especially as there were three or four extra police put upon the beat at the hours when the `` boys '' went to and from Vincent Square . It was , however , some time before the `` great fight '' ceased to be a subject of conversation among the boys . At five minutes to ten on the morning when Dr. Litter had put a stop to fields , two of the younger boys -- who were as usual , just before school-time , standing in the archway leading into Little Dean 's Yard to warn the School of the issuing out of the head-master -- were talking of the fight of the evening before ; both had been present , having been fagging out at cricket for their masters . `` I wonder which would lick , Norris or Barkley . What a splendid fight it would be ! '' `` You will never see that , Fairlie , for they are cousins and great friends .