twelve o'clock
The room grew shadowy . `` Build it up , Malise , '' begged Molly ; `` I like it light . '' There was no more wood up-stairs . It was past twelve o'clock and the house was still . Alexina opened the door into the hall . A lamp in case of need , because of Molly , was burning on a stand . Alexina had remembered that there was wood piled on the parlour hearth .