twelve o'clock
`` That 's easily given . You know very well you 're the only girl I 've ever loved . '' -LSB- Footnote : Copyrighted by J. Brisbane Walker , and used by the courtesy of the _ Cosmopolitan Magazine _ . -RSB- It was twelve o'clock that Sunday night when , leaving the lodging-house for a breath of winter air before going to bed , I met the two musicians coming in , carrying under their arms their violins in cases . They belonged to the orchestra at the -- Theatre , and were returning from a dress rehearsal of the new comic opera that was to be produced there on the following night . Schaaf , who entered the hallway in advance of the professor , responded to my greeting in his customary gruff , almost suspicious manner , and passed on , turning down the collar of his overcoat . His heavily bearded face was as gloomy-looking as ever in the light of the single flickering gaslight .