Twelve o'clock
`` By George , that 's so , I must go and call on her before I go away . '' `` Oh , never mind her , '' Hurstwood remarked . `` Say , she was a little dandy , I tell you , '' went on Drouet confidentially , and trying to impress his friend . `` Twelve o'clock , '' said Hurstwood . `` That 's right , '' said Drouet , going out . Thus was Carrie 's name bandied about in the most frivolous and gay of places , and that also when the little toiler was bemoaning her narrow lot , which was almost inseparable from the early stages of this , her unfolding fate . At the flat that evening Carrie felt a new phase of its atmosphere .