twelve o'clock
That 's what they did when Julia Jackson got in a mess . They could n't have a scandal : so her education was complete , and home she went . Now the first time we are out for a walk and he passes us and bows , you watch . '' Miss Julia Arden went to sleep directly she went to bed , but Catharine , contrary to her usual custom , lay awake till she heard twelve o'clock strike from St. Mary , Abchurch . She started , and thought that she alone , perhaps , of all the people who lay within reach of those chimes had heard them . Why did she not go to sleep ? She was unused to wakefulness , and its novelty surprised her with all sorts of vague terrors .