twelve o'clock
And this one was so great that it seemed to him that his adversaries were obliged to comply with it . The car was travelling along the road to Nantes . It would cover an average of twenty miles an hour . And as he himself was travelling at the rate of sixty miles , the encounter would take place at the spot named , Les Ponts-de-Drive , and at the hour named , twelve o'clock . A cluster of houses , a huge castle , towers , steeples : Angers ... . Don Luis asked Davanne the time . It was ten minutes to twelve .