midnight
Just then the train came in . There was the usual bustle of passengers alighting and others getting in ; the next moment the girls had taken their seats in a crowded compartment and were off to town . They arrived in London between twelve and one o'clock , and found themselves landed at Waterloo . Now , Waterloo is not the nicest station in the world for two very young girls to arrive at midnight , particularly when they have not the faintest idea where to go . `` Let us go straight to the waiting room and ask the woman there what we had best do , '' said Molly , who still immensely enjoyed taking the lead . Nora followed her companion quite willingly . Her worst fears about her father were held in abeyance , now that she was really on her way to him .