twelve o'clock
`` I 'll explain it right away and then you will have to admit that it was the only thing to do , '' Bruno assured her . `` The two told me last Saturday that they had a scheme for to-day in which I was to join . They had discovered that the lovely plums in the Rector 's garden were ripe and they meant to steal them . When the Rector is through with his lessons at twelve o'clock he always goes to the front room and then nobody knew what is going on in the garden . Their plan was to use this time to-day in order to shake the tree and fill their pockets full of plums . I was to help them . I told them what a disgrace it was for them to ask me and I said that I would find means to prevent it .