ten-thirty-one

Updated: May 20, 2025

Then she wrote to invite him to late Sunday breakfast at the Gilsons' they made a function of it, and called it bruncheon. The hour was given as ten-thirty; most people came at noon; but Milt arrived at ten-thirty-one, and found only a sleepy butler in sight. He waited in the drawing-room for five minutes, feeling like a bill-collector.

Sinclair Lewis - Free Air