twelve o'clock
`` Very well , Patsey ; abuse is not argument , and almost every word that you have said applies equally well to your folly , in leaving a comfortable home in a quiet country to come to such a dangerous place as this . `` Now , I hope that supper is ready , for I am as hungry as a hunter . '' Chapter 3 : The First Successes . The next morning , at twelve o'clock , Jean Martin reached home . `` The war has begun , '' he said , as he leaped from his horse . `` Henri de la Rochejaquelein has accepted the leadership of the peasants , at Clisson . Lescure would have joined also , but Henri pointed out to him that it would be better not to compromise his family , until it was certain that the insurrection would become general .