about twelve o’clock
He would n't say things like that if he had a child of his own . '' There was a great deal of angry feeling in Ballygore and indeed all through the constituency when Lalage went home . It was generally believed that O'Donoghue , Vittie , and I had somehow driven her away , but this was quite unjust to us and we all three felt it . We felt it particularly when , one night at about twelve o'clock , a large crowd visited us in turn and groaned under our windows . O'Donoghue and Vittie , with a view to ingratiating themselves with the electors , wrote letters to the papers solemnly declaring that they sincerely wished Lalage to return . Nobody believed them . Lalage 's teaching had sunk so deep into the popular mind that nobody would have believed anything O'Donoghue and Vittie said even if they had sworn its truth .