twelve o'clock
asked Reinhard . `` Behind us . Do you hear it ? It is striking twelve o'clock . '' `` Then the town lies behind us , and if we go straight through in this direction we are bound to fall in with the others . '' So they started on their homeward way ; they had given up looking for strawberries , for Elisabeth had become tired . And at last there rang out from among the trees the laughing voices of the picnic party ; then they saw too a white cloth spread gleaming on the ground ; it was the luncheon-table and on it were strawberries enough and to spare .