twelve o'clock
All the chicks poured back helter-skelter into the coop , the orphan amongst them , and the hen took it into her family circle without demur , and the baby Plymouth Rock 's life was saved . After that , to say that Angela was as fussy as a hen with one chick was to speak but very mildly of her condition . She looked on it as the foundation of her fortunes , and , surely , she thought , no one had ever owned such a beautiful chick before . The next day Penelope went to the church at twelve o'clock to have her first lesson . She went off jubilantly ; she returned a little less so . Miss Row was unaccustomed to children , or to teaching , and she had never been considered a patient woman . `` I believe it is going to be dreadfully hard , '' Penelope confided to the others , as they gathered round her .