twelve o'clock
A week after my arrival there was to be a fair over at Ryde , in the Isle of Wight , and I asked Peggy whether she would go with me ; but she refused , saying that she was obliged to go to her aunt 's out at Limberhook , who was very old , and had sent for her , so I thought nothing more about the matter . Well , the day before the fair , as we were busy in the fore noon getting the timber out of the vessel , one of my shipmates , who went to the same house , says to me , ` I say , Tom , when I was at the Chequers last night , I overheard Peggy promise to go to the Ryde Fair with that Frenchified smuggling chap . ' '' ` Did you ? ' said I. '' ` Yes , ' replied he , ` and they agreed to start at twelve o'clock , just after the dockyard bell rang . I thought at the time it was just to give you the slip before you left the ship , and that she is turning you over . ' `` Well , when I heard this , did not my blood boil ? for the hussy had told me a lie in saying that she was going to her aunt 's ; and it was evident that she had done so that she might go with this other fellow to the fair .