twelve o'clock
I do n't think you 'll ever do that , '' said Georgina , who was rather proud of her own good looks . This took place on the evening of the day on which Mrs. Carroll had gone to London , where Mr. Carroll was about attending to some of those duties of conviviality in the performance of which he was so indefatigable . On the following morning at twelve o'clock he was still in bed . It was a well-known fact in the family that on such an occasion he would lie in bed , and that before twelve o'clock he would have managed to extract from his wife 's little hoardings at any rate two bottles of soda-water and two glasses of some alcoholic mixture which was generally called brandy . `` I 'll have a gin-and-potash , Sophie , '' he had said on this occasion , with reference to the second dose , `` and do make haste . I wish you 'd go yourself , because that girl always drinks some of the sperrits . '' `` What !