twelve o'clock
A rector 's daughter , you know -- '' `` Ah ! yes . '' Then Jenny mounted from a rock -LRB- Lady Richard held the mare 's head and settled the habit -RRB- , and rode slowly away downhill . -LRB- III -RRB- Dick approached the Rectory next day a little before twelve o'clock with as much excitement in his heart as he ever permitted to himself . Dick is a good fellow -- I have n't a word to say against him , except perhaps that he used to think that to be a Guiseley , and to have altogether sixteen hundred a year and to live in a flat in St. James 's , and to possess a pointed brown beard and melancholy brown eyes and a reposeful manner , relieved him from all further effort . I have wronged him , however ; he had made immense efforts to be proficient at billiards , and had really succeeded ; and , since his ultimate change of fortune , has embraced even further responsibilities in a conscientious manner . Of course , he had been in love before in a sort of way ; but this was truly different .