twelve o'clock
It was childish . ` But servants are all the same , ' I told myself . ` I must take Mrs. Carkeek as she is ; and , after all , she is a treasure . ' `` On the second night after this , and between eleven and twelve o'clock , I was lying in bed and reading myself sleepy over a novel of Lord Lytton 's , when a small sound disturbed me . I listened . The sound was clearly that of water trickling ; and I set it down to rain . A shower -LRB- I told myself -RRB- had filled the water-pipes which drained the roof .