twelve o'clock
He was sufficiently taken off his guard by her demeanour to begin to think it was impossible she should not have some mysterious financial resource to fall back upon for the morrow . `` We shall not want to be very long at the theatre , '' were her last words to him that night . `` Let us try and get there by ten . I shall pay the salaries at twelve o'clock and we can leave the house soon after . '' Morgan 's attitude in the morning was one of interested expectancy . Cleo was as full of vitality as ever . Perhaps it was that , as she entered the theatre , the sight of her trunk , waiting in the corridor for redemption , stimulated her masterfulness afresh , for she found pretext for asserting her authority over everybody on the premises .