Do you hear the gong striking four?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 《》(·) "But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there.
And as they thus sat, and it was striking twelve o'clock, the stranger saw the door open, and a very pale child dressed in snow-white clothes came in.