twelve o'clock
So with a promise to come to see them soon at the address Mrs. Merrill wrote out on her card for Frances , the friends said good-by . `` I 'll declare ! '' exclaimed Mrs. Merrill , looking at her watch after Frances left them . `` It 's almost twelve o'clock already ! And we were to meet father at one . If you girls want to see anything of the toys and dolls and playrooms , we 'd better not be sitting around here any longer . '' Of course the girls did want to see the toys and dolls and everything .