12 o'clock
`` Oh Helen you must see my wedding dress '' cried Gladys , and getting up the two girls walked to the bed whereon lay a flimsy mass of tule and satin crowned with orange blossom and glittering with diamonds . '' `` It is really a beautiful dress '' said Helen at last `` how sweet you will look Gladys . '' `` Dont be sarcastic '' said Gladys with a smile little dreaming how pretty she looked even then in her simple dressing gown . `` Oh I say there is 12 o'clock striking '' cried Helen starting up `` I 've been here a whole two hours , it is really disgracful , well goodnight Gladys dear '' she added as she flew quickly out of the room as the last stroke of midnight died softly away . At 11 o'clock precisely , as Gladys had said the marriage ceremony began . Gladys as I have already said was attired in a white satin trained dress made to fit her slender figure to perfection and covered with thin tule . She wore orange blossom in her hair and on her dress and a magnificent diamond crescent caught up her veil .