twelve o'clock
`` I 'm glad he 's gone , '' thought Paul . `` Now there 's a chance for me . '' He managed after a while to sell twenty of his packages . By this time it was twelve o'clock , and he began to feel hungry . He resolved , therefore , to go home to dinner and come out again in the afternoon . He did n't know how much he had made , but probably about fifty cents . He had made more than double as much the day before in less time ; but then he did not suffer from competition .