About twelve o'clock
WORDSWORTH . Mr. Carleton came the next day , but not early , to take Fleda to Montepoole . She had told her grandfather that she did not think he would come , because after last night he must know that she would not want to go . About twelve o'clock , however , he was there , with a little wagon , and Fleda was fain to get her sunbonnet and let him put her in . Happily it was her maxim never to trust to uncertainties , so she was quite ready when he came , and they had not to wait a minute . Though Fleda had a little dread of being introduced to a party of strangers , and was a good deal disappointed at being obliged to keep her promise , she very soon began to be glad . She found her fear gradually falling away before Mr. Carleton 's quiet kind reassuring manner ; he took such nice care of her ; and she presently made up her mind that he would manage the matter so that it would not be awkward .