twelve o'clock
`` Why , Mr. Gammon , then my Lord Dreddlington must have completely lost his senses ! He declares that you told him that such was the fact ! -- When and where , may I ask , did you first see him to-day ? '' `` About half-past eleven or twelve o'clock , when he called at my chambers in a state of the greatest agitation and excitement , occasioned by the announcement in this morning 's paper of the sudden blow-up of the Artificial '' -- `` Good Heaven ! why , is _ that _ gone ? '' interrupted his Grace , eagerly and alarmedly , starting up from his seat -- `` When ? why ?