twelve o’clock
However , we walked home very silently . I am ashamed to say , I believe I was rather vexed and annoyed at Miss Matty 's conduct in taking the note to herself so decidedly . I had so set my heart upon her having a new silk gown , which she wanted sadly ; in general she was so undecided anybody might turn her round ; in this case I had felt that it was no use attempting it , but I was not the less put out at the result . Somehow , after twelve o'clock , we both acknowledged to a sated curiosity about the fashions , and to a certain fatigue of body -LRB- which was , in fact , depression of mind -RRB- that indisposed us to go out again . But still we never spoke of the note ; till , all at once , something possessed me to ask Miss Matty if she would think it her duty to offer sovereigns for all the notes of the Town and County Bank she met with ? I could have bitten my tongue out the minute I had said it . She looked up rather sadly , and as if I had thrown a new perplexity into her already distressed mind ; and for a minute or two she did not speak .