twelve o'clock
`` All you girls must , of course , be called ` Mrs. ' instead of ` Miss , ' '' suggested Frank , `` though you will have to keep your own names , that is , unless you prefer to disclose any designs you may have upon other people 's ; `` for which piece of impertinence Nellie , who sat next him , boxed his ears , -- for the reader must know that these young people were on a footing of entire familiarity and long intimacy . `` Do you know what time it is ? '' asked Mary , who , by virtue of the sweet sedateness of her disposition , was rather the monitress of the company . `` It 's twelve o'clock , an hour after the club 's curfew . '' `` Well , '' remarked Henry , rousing from the fit of abstraction in which he had been pursuing the subject of their previous discussion , `` it was to be expected we should get a little mixed as to chronology over such talk as this . '' `` With our watches set fifty years ahead , there 'll be no danger of overstaying our time next Wednesday , anyhow , '' added Frank . Soon the girls presented themselves in readiness for outdoors , and , in a pleasant gust of good-bys and parting jests , the party broke up .