twelve o'clock
`` Indeed ! Hagar told me you had not returned , when I came in from visiting . '' `` Like some other people of my acquaintance , Hagar reckons without her host . I have been at home ever since twelve o'clock , and saw the carriage as you drove off . '' `` And pray how have you employed yourself , you incorrigible ignis fatuus ? O my cousin ! you are well named .