twelve o’clock
` As bonny a lass as I have seen , ' added James , ` since I was in the Fusileers , and kept company with Peg Baxter . ' Thou knowest all James 's gay recollections go back to the period of his military service , the years he has spent in ours having probably been dull enough . ` Did the lady leave no name nor place of address ? ' ` No , ' replied James ; ` but she asked when you wad be at hame , and I appointed her for twelve o'clock , when the house wad be quiet , and your father at the Bank . ' ` For shame , James ! how can you think my father 's being at home or abroad could be of consequence ? -- The lady is of course a decent person ? '