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"Twelve o'clock," said Socks despairingly.
The joke -- as a joke -- had not gone off any too well. The alarm clocks, on the other hand, had performed their part. They had gone off -- with a vigour and élan that could hardly have been surpassed and which had sent Ronny Devereux leaping out of bed with a confused idea that the day of judgment had come. If such had been the effect in the room next door, what must it have been at close quarters? Ronny hurried out in the passage and applied his ear to the crack of the door.