twenty minutes
after twelve
`` Write it now and we 'll skip out and put it under his front door . We can slip down-stairs -- no one will hear us , and -- '' `` Carita ! You do n't know what you are talking about . It 's twenty minutes after twelve this instant . Do n't you ever think you could get out of this house without Aunt Lucinda 's knowing it . She sleeps with one eye open . No -- that wo n't do .