twelve o'clock
Tabb are to sit up with the corpse to-night . '' `` When did she die ? '' queried his wife , drawing her skirts aside , that he might get nearer the fire . `` At twelve o'clock to-day . That is , she ceased the unprofitable business of respiration at that hour . She died , virtually , five years ago . She has been little better than a mummy for that period . ''