twelve o'clock
`` Glamis thou art , and Cawdor , and thou shalt be what thou art promised ! '' Lyons left Selma with the conviction that he would find Elton to be mainly responsible for what had taken place . Shortly after reaching his office he received a note from him asking for an appointment . Punctually at twelve o'clock Elton arrived and was shown into Lyons 's private room . Lyons gave orders that he was not to be disturbed , for he believed that the results of the interview were likely to have a serious bearing on his career as a statesman . Both men were of heavy physique , but as they sat facing each other an observer would have remarked that Elton 's visage possessed a clean-cut compactness of expression despite its rotund contour . His closely trimmed whiskers , his small , clear , penetrating eyes , and the effect of neatness conveyed by his personal appearance were so many external indications of his mental lucidity and precision .