twelve o'clock
And you wo n't , you _ wo n't _ turn me out when my lease is up ? '' He bowed over the hand she held out to him . `` You shall never be turned out as long as you want to stay . '' By twelve o'clock they had arranged the details ; Mr. Waddington was to put in a bathroom ; to throw the two rooms on the ground floor into one ; to build out a new sitting-room with a bedroom over it ; and to paint and distemper the place , in cream white , throughout . And it was to be called the White House . By the time they had finished with it Ballinger 's cottage had become the house Mrs. Levitt had dreamed of all her life , and not unlike the house Mr. Waddington had dreamed of that minute -LRB- while he planned the bathroom -RRB- ; the little bijou house where an adorable but not too rigorously moral lady -- He stopped with a mental jerk , ashamed . He had no reason to suppose that Elise was or would become such a lady .