midnight
`` It was a good one , too . Then we got on the right road and made pretty good time over here . '' The little party of young people was in the hotel parlor . As Cora had said , it was getting late , the hands of the clock approaching the midnight hour , and they all had had rather a strenuous time that day . Jack and Ed had left their car in the garage with the others . `` Me for the downy feathers ! '' exclaimed Jack , with a yawn .