twelve o'clock
`` And so you nearly missed the train , my child ? '' he said . `` I should have been much ashamed if I had , Monsieur l'Abbe , '' she replied . `` I had been at the station since twelve o'clock . And all at once I saw his reverence , the priest of Sainte-Radegonde , who knows me well and who called me to him , to kiss me and tell me that it was very good of me to go back to Lourdes . But it seems the train was starting and I only just had time to run on to the platform . Oh !