twelve o'clock
`` Too sleepy , '' she said , and ran upstairs . He called after her , `` Quitter ! '' But it provoked no retort , and he would have gone back to walk up and down alone , by the primroses , and worry over Jacky 's future , if a melancholy voice had not come from the window of their room : `` Maurice ... . It 's twelve o'clock . '' And he followed Edith indoors ... . Edith had been sharply anxious to be by herself . She could not sit on the porch with Maurice , and not burst out and tell him -- what ?