twelve o'clock
`` I shall lose my supper if you do n't . '' He obeyed her immediately , and away we went . You will remember that his talk had been of a house in Portman Square ; but no sooner had I turned the corner by the Criterion than he began speaking through the tube , and telling me to go to Playford 's in Berkeley Square . There he stopped , notwithstanding that it was getting on for twelve o'clock ; and when he had rung the bell and entered the house , I had to wait a good fifteen minutes before he was ready for the second stage . `` Is it Portman Square now ? '' I asked him . He laughed and slipped a sovereign into my hand .