about twelve
o'clock
She was going to her dressmaker 's , eat lunch alone at Taine 's , shop all afternoon , and meet her husband on the ferry at five . Samuel told her that her husband was a very lucky man . She blushed again and scurried off . Samuel whistled all the way back to his office , but about twelve o'clock he began to see that pathetic , appealing little mouth everywhere -- and those brown eyes . He fidgeted when he looked at the clock ; he thought of the grill down-stairs where he lunched and the heavy male conversation thereof , and opposed to that picture appeared another ; a little table at Taine 's with the brown eyes and the mouth a few feet away . A few minutes before twelve-thirty he dashed on his hat and rushed for the cable-car . She was quite surprised to see him .