twelve o'clock
I expect that we shall have to fight our way back , and we shall want darkness to help us . It would be folly to risk anything , just as success seems certain after these months of searching . Still , it is hard to have to wait . `` It is getting on to twelve o'clock . You had better get that basket out and have your dinners . '' The next four hours seemed to him interminable . The sailors and negroes had gone to sleep as soon as they had finished their meal and smoked a pipe .