about twelve o'clock
`` What was the message ? '' asked Levi , tenderly , for he was full of pity for Mat . `` He told me to tell you that he and Miss Bessie would meet you in Portland on your arrival . Her mother made such a fuss about her going off in the night without her aunt , that her father decided to take the cars , for he heard in Gloucester that an excursion train would come along about twelve o'clock . '' `` Very well , '' said Levi . `` I will go on shore with you and see about it . I hope your mother will get better . ''