twelve o'clock
They sat about in the drawing-room and sizzled ! They knew exactly at what hour this girl came in on Monday night , and at exactly what hour the other girl came in on Tuesday night . They whispered things to each other ! They thought it was very peculiar behaviour for a girl to come back to the club alone with a man at twelve o'clock ... `` midnight , my dear ! '' they would say , as if `` midnight '' had a more terrible sound than twelve o'clock ... and they were certain that Miss Dilldall 's parents should be informed of the fact that on Saturday evening she went off in a taxi-cab with a man who was wearing dress-clothes and a gibus-hat . Miss Dilldall publicly boasted of the fact that she had smoked a cigarette in a restaurant in Soho ! ... Ugh !