twelve o'clock
`` Do you know , '' said Allen , speaking directly to Dan , `` we 're having great arguments at Lüders 's ; we turn the universe over every day . '' `` You see , Miss Bassett , '' Allen explained to Marian ; `` I 'm a fair carpenter and work almost every day at Louis Lüders 's shop . I earn a dollar a day and eat dinner -- dinner , mind you ! -- at twelve o'clock , out of a tin pail . You can see that I 'm a laboring man -- one of the toiling millions . '' `` You do n't mean that seriously , Mr. Thatcher ; not really ! '' `` Oh , why will you say that ?