twenty minutes past
eleven
But although this was a late hour in Miss Wendover 's household , his young wife was not prepared to receive him . It was Aunt Betsy who came to him , after he had waited for nearly a quarter of an hour , prowling restlessly about the drawing-room , looking at the books , and china , and water-colours . ` I have come for Ida , ' he said abruptly , when he had shaken hands with his aunt . ` There is a train leaves Winchester at twenty minutes past eleven . She will be ready for that I suppose ? ' He was half prepared for reproaches from his aunt , and wholly prepared to set her at defiance . But if she were civil he would be civil : he did not court a quarrel .