twelve o'clock
I could n't help it . I am too miserable . `` But -- `` But I wo n't write any more . I shall stay in my rooms till twelve o'clock . You owe me promptness . '' * * * * * Julie put down the letter . She looked round her little study with a kind of despair -- the despair perhaps of the prisoner who had thought himself delivered , only to find himself caught in fresh and stronger bonds .