twelve
o'clock at night
He could see that she was pleased at being spoken to . Her eyes were alert , and she told him that she knew he was doing altars for Father McCabe , and Father McCabe was a cousin of hers , and her father had a cheese-monger 's shop , and their back windows overlooked the mews in which Rodney had his studio . `` How late you work ! Sometimes your light does not go out until twelve o'clock at night . '' Henceforth he met her at tea in the afternoons , and they went to the museum together , and she promised to try to get leave from her father and mother to sit to him for a bust . But she could only sit to him for an hour or two before she went to Mr. Lawrence , and Rodney said that she would be doing him an extraordinary favour if she would get up some hours earlier and sit to him from eight till ten . It was amusing to do the bust , but the bust was only a pretext .