one o'clock
`` I could n't swallow a mouthful , '' I said . `` Nor I either , '' said Percivale . `` Then I 'll just take a hunch of bread with me , '' said Mr. Blackstone , `` for I am hungry . I 've had nothing since one o'clock . '' We neither asked him not to go , nor offered to wait till he had had his supper . Before we reached Printing-House Square he had eaten half a loaf . `` Are you sure , '' said my husband , as we were starting , `` that they will take an advertisement at the printing-office ? ''