twelve o'clock
`` Whistle for a hansom for me , please , Susan . '' Susan did so ; and half an hour afterward Hilda was making inquiries at Rivers ' chambers with regard to his whereabouts . The clerks there could give her no definite information . Mr. Rivers had gone out with a little lady soon after twelve o'clock , and had told them not to expect him back that day . `` I shall find Judy at Philippa Terrace when I go home , '' thought Mrs. Quentyns . `` It was thoughtless of her not to tell me how long she would be out -- it was wonderfully unlike her . Still , of course , she will be at home now . ''