twelve o'clock
`` Everything depends on you . '' Hannibal , who heard this brief dialogue , went silently downstairs , and at once started in quest of Arden Lacey . `` If he is quar , he seemed kind o ' human ; and I ` se believe he 'll help us now . '' Arden was on the way to the barn , having just finished a farmer 's twelve o'clock dinner , when Hannibal entered the yard . An angel of light could not have been more welcome than this dusky messenger , for he came from the centre of all light and hope to poor Arden . Then a feeling of alarm took possession of him . Had anything happened to Edith ?