twelve o'clock
`` You must forgive my intrusion , '' he said , coldly ; `` I have come with a message from Mr. Pargeter . He believes his wife to be here , and he wishes her to be informed that her son , little Jasper , has had an accident . When the news arrived last night , it was too late to telegraph , and so he asked me to come here this morning in his motor in order to bring Mrs. Pargeter back to Paris . He proposes that she should accompany him to England to-day by the twelve o'clock train . '' An expression of deep bewilderment crossed Madame de Léra 's face . For the first time since she had glanced at Vanderlyn , she became aware that she was in the presence of a man who was suffering under some keen stress of feeling . She became oppressed with a great misgiving .