twelve o'clock
The child ca n't live . It is one of the worst cases of croup I have had this year , why did n't you send for me sooner ? Where is his father ? It is now just twelve o'clock , time for all respectable men to be in the house , '' said the bluff but kind hearted family doctor looking tenderly upon Jeanette 's little boy who lay gasping for breath in the last stages of croup . `` Oh ! I do n't know , '' said Jeanette her face crimsoning beneath the doctor 's searching glance . `` I suppose he is down to Anderson 's . ''