twelve o’clock
` Say half an hour at the Falcon to change my dress . ` Say two hours waiting for some train and getting to Plymouth . ` Say an hour to spare before twelve o'clock . ` Total time from leaving Endelstow till twelve o'clock , five hours . ` Therefore I shall have to start at seven . ' No surprise or sense of unwontedness entered the minds of the servants at her early ride . The monotony of life we associate with people of small incomes in districts out of the sound of the railway whistle , has one exception , which puts into shade the experience of dwellers about the great centres of population -- that is , in travelling .