midnight
What if we were seen ? '' `` Nonsense ! Who is to see us ! And if they do , have n't brothers and sisters a right to walk at midnight as well as noonday if they choose ? Besides , we may see the spectre of Danton Hall , and I would give a month 's pay for the sight any time . '' They entered the tamarack walk as he spoke -- bright enough at the entrance , where the starlight streamed in , but in the very blackness of darkness farther down . `` How horribly dismal ! ''