twelve o'clock
`` Lor ' bless me ! '' she cried , `` you 've given us a pretty fright . We thought you was n't coming back to your senses no more . You 've been a-lyin ' there since the middle of the night , and now it 's close on to twelve o'clock . '' Kate lay silent for some little time , putting together all that had occurred . `` Oh , Rebecca , '' she said at last , shivering at the recollection , `` I have seen the most dreadful sight . Either I am going mad , or I have seen a ghost . ''