midnight
Good-night , Austin . '' `` Good-night , Sylvia . '' There were , however , no more French lessons that week . The next evening twenty young people went off together in sleighs , got their supper at White Water , danced there until midnight , and did not reach home until three in the morning . The following night there was a `` show '' in Wallacetown , and although they had all declared at their respective breakfast-tables -- for breakfast is served anywhere from five-thirty to six-thirty in Hamstead , Vermont -- that nothing would keep them out of bed after supper _ that _ night , off they all went again . A `` ball '' followed the `` show , '' and the memory of the first sleigh-ride proved so agreeable that another was undertaken . And finally , on New Year 's Eve the Grays themselves gave a party , opening wide the doors of the fine old house for the first time in many years .