twelve o’clock
`` They passed through Monte Carlo . One of us ought to have remained at the station . I did think of it ; but , in the midst of all that bustle ... '' Lupin and his friends took the first train for Italy . They crossed the frontier at twelve o'clock . The train entered the station at San Remo at twelve-forty . They at once saw an hotel-porter , with `` Ambassadeurs-Palace '' on his braided cap , who seemed to be looking for some one among the arrivals . Lupin went up to him : `` Are you looking for M. Nicole ? ''