About
twelve o’clock
`` After so wonderful a day , of course you dreamt of racing , and those two horses were in your mind . That 's the explanation . '' They returned to the flat and began , industriously , to pack . About twelve o'clock Carter , coming suddenly into the bedroom where Dolly was alone , found her reading the MORNING TELEGRAPH . It was open at the racing page of `` past performances . '' She dropped the paper guiltily . Carter kicked a hat-box out of his way and sat down on a trunk .