twelve o'clock
`` Will Mr. Frank Churchill pass through Bath as well as Oxford ? '' -- was a question , however , which did not augur much . But neither geography nor tranquillity could come all at once , and Emma was now in a humour to resolve that they should both come in time . The morning of the interesting day arrived , and Mrs. Weston 's faithful pupil did not forget either at ten , or eleven , or twelve o'clock , that she was to think of her at four . `` My dear , dear anxious friend , '' -- said she , in mental soliloquy , while walking downstairs from her own room , `` always overcareful for every body 's comfort but your own ; I see you now in all your little fidgets , going again and again into his room , to be sure that all is right . '' The clock struck twelve as she passed through the hall . `` 'T is twelve ; I shall not forget to think of you four hours hence ; and by this time to-morrow , perhaps , or a little later , I may be thinking of the possibility of their all calling here .