nearly one o'clock
answered Julia , with a kiss for her son . `` He 's just lying here and finking ` bout fings ! I do n't know where the others can be , '' she went on , in evident reference to Barbara 's vigil at the window . `` Jim said lunch , and it 's nearly one o'clock now ! Take your things off , Babbie , and lunch with us ? '' `` Positively I must n't , dear . I must be at home .