nearly twelve o'clock
You might have come to speak to me before this -- but never mind . It 's nothing to you . ' It needed much coaxing to persuade her to detail Sam 's enormities , but she found much relief when she had done so , and wept more copiously than ever . ` It 's nearly twelve o'clock , and there 's no sign of him , Perhaps he wo n't come at all . He 's in bad company , and if he stays away all night I 'll never speak to him again as long as I live . Oh , he 's a beast of a husband , is Sam ! ' Sam came not .