one o'clock
`` What for ? '' `` For aiding her to escape . '' `` Did n't she have a right to hurry away if she wanted to go ? It 's almost one o'clock -- I 'll have to be off myself soon , if I want to keep my job . '' There was a laugh at this , and half a dozen looked at their watches and left . `` If you please , '' put in the assistant nervously . `` Had we not better go on with the sales ?