twelve o'clock
You wo n't see me getting punished for what some other fellow 's done . That 's all right in stories , but not for yours truly ! Not a bit of it , Tom ! '' They descended on the dining-car at twelve o'clock promptly , being unable to remain away any longer , and gave an excellent imitation of a visitation of locusts performing their well-known devastating act . If any two travellers by land or sea ever received their money 's worth in food it was Steve and Tom . They took the menu card and briskly demanded everything in order , and when , having finished their dessert , they made the discovery that a criminally careless waiter had deprived them of pineapple sherbert , they immediately and indignantly saw to it that the omission was corrected . Afterwards , groaning with happiness and repletion , they dragged themselves back to their own car and subsided on the seat in beatific silence .