twelve o'clock
She took the chain -- she was coloring in a most becoming way -- and hid it and the ring in her bosom . Then she drew off a narrow hoop of gold with a small setting and pushed it on his big little finger . `` And THAT , sir , '' she said , with a bewitching look , `` may help you not to forget that YOU belong to me . '' She left the ferry in advance of him and faced Olivia just in time for them to go down together to the half-past twelve o'clock dinner . As Mrs. Trent 's was the best board in Battle Field there were more applicants than she could make places for at her one table . In the second week of the term she put a small table in the alcove of the dining-room and gave it to her `` star '' boarders -- Pierson , Olivia and Pauline . They invited Scarborough to take the fourth place .