one o’clock
`` I gave Ellen the bottle of brandy you gave me for the tipsy-cake , and -- and she drank half of it . '' `` And the other half ? '' `` Mary drank that . They got word this morning that their brother was very ill , and it upset them so I do n't believe they knew what they were doing ; but at one o'clock , when I went down to lunch , there was no lunch ready , and when I descended into the kitchen to find out why , I found that the fire had gone out , and both girls were -- both girls were asleep on the cellar floor . They 're there yet -- locked in ; and all through dinner I was afraid they might come to , and -- make a rumpus . '' `` And the dinner ? '' said Thaddeus , a light breaking through into his troubled mind .