twelve o'clock
I will trust it in your hands altogether . I have only one comfort in this dreadful affair , and that is that Bertha has Anna with her . '' `` That is certainly a great comfort ; and it is something in the man 's favour that when he enticed her from the yacht with that forged letter he suggested that she should bring her maid . '' Frank Mallet and Lady Greendale crossed to Southampton by the twelve o'clock boat , and arrived in London at three . `` I have been thinking , '' she said , as they went up , `` that it will be better for me to stop in town . I shall have less difficulty in answering questions there than I should have at home . Everyone is leaving now , and in another week there will be scarcely a soul in London I know ; and I shall keep down the front blinds , and no one will dream of my being there .