one o'clock
`` Have you had your lunch ? '' Adele was asking . `` We have n't . I was kept by the girl at the milliner 's -- '' It was one o'clock on a Saturday afternoon . Martie was free to lunch where she pleased . She was free even to sit down with a woman whose name was under a cloud . They all crowded into an express elevator , and sat down at a table in the restaurant on the twelfth floor .