twelve o'clock
The lessons you receive here must be futile indeed if they do not teach you the duty of reverence to God , and courtesy to man . It gives me special pain , Williams , to have observed that you , too , a boy high in your remove , were guilty of this most culpable levity . You will all come to me at twelve o'clock in the library . '' At twelve o'clock they each received a flogging . The pain inflicted was not great , and Duncan and Llewellyn , who had got into similar trouble before , cared very little for it , and went out laughing to tell the number of swishes they had received to a little crowd of boys who were lingering outside the library door . But not so Eric . It was his _ first _ flogging , and he felt it deeply .