twelve
o'clock
I 'm not telling what I started out to tell at all . It 's lucky we can each take all the room we want , though , in these Chronicles . -RRB- `` Well , I 'll tell it now , really , though I 'm still so shaky and excited my hand trembles awfully . It was in the night , a little past twelve o'clock that it happened . I was lying in my berth above Elsie 's , and was wide-awake . I had been thinking about Father . He has been such a dear all the way .