twelve o’clock
see it all through , '' said Mr. Van Astrachan . `` Young people must be young . It 's all right enough , and you wo n't miss my Polly after you get fairly into it near so much as I shall . I 'll sit up for her till twelve o'clock , and read my paper . '' Rose was at first , to say the truth , bewildered and surprised by the perfect labyrinth of fairy-land which Charlie Ferrola 's artistic imagination had created in the Follingsbee mansion . Initiated people , who had travelled in Europe , said it put them in mind of the `` Jardin Mabille ; '' and those who had not were reminded of some of the wonders of `` The Black Crook . '' There were apartments turned into bowers and grottoes , where the gas-light shimmered behind veils of falling water , and through pendant leaves of all sorts of strange water-plants of tropical regions .