half past twelve
And then their talk waited under a restraint again . `` I supposed we were all religious , -- Sundays , at least , '' broke forth Sin Saxon suddenly , who , strangely , had not spoken before . `` I do n't know , though . Last Saturday night we danced the German till half past twelve , and we talked charades instead of going to church , till I felt -- as if I 'd sat all the morning with my feet over a register , reading a novel , when I 'd ought to have been doing a German exercise or something . If she 's religious every day , she 's seven times better than we are , that 's all . _ I _ think -- she 's got a knot to her thread ! '' Nobody dared send Leslie Goldthwaite quite to Coventry after this .