twelve o'clock
`` Oh , no , darling , I 'll be through presently -- just as soon as I get this trunk packed . Lucy 's things are lovely . I wish you had come in time to see them . Miss Willy and I spent all yesterday running blue ribbons in her underclothes , and though we began before breakfast , we had to sit up until twelve o'clock so as to get through in time to begin on the trunks this morning . '' Her eyes shone as she spoke , and she would have enjoyed describing all Lucy 's clothes , for she loved pretty things , though she never bought them for herself , finding it impossible to break the habit of more than twenty years of economy ; but Jenny , who was proud of her sincerity , looked so plainly bored that she checked her flowing descriptions . `` I hope you brought something beautiful to wear to-morrow , Jenny ? '' she ventured timidly , after a silence .