twelve o’clock
`` I will send this off at once , '' he said , getting up . `` She evidently wants to have her grandmother with her now . She calls continually for her . '' When the twelve o'clock train stopped at the station next morning two passengers got out -- a little old lady dressed with Quaker-like neatness , and a tall , grizzled , sunburnt man with a breezy , open-air look about him . Tom and the Rector were both waiting on the platform , and hurried up to them . There was good news . `` Your granddaughter is better , Mrs. Smith , '' the Rector said in his kind voice .