midnight
`` I mean to try always to make people happy , '' said Randy . `` So do I , '' said little Prue ; `` but now let 's go to bed . '' Randy laughed , and saying , `` You 've done bravely , Prue , to keep your eyes open to-night , '' led her little sister up the stairs to their tiny chamber , where soon they were fast asleep . The Babson girls talked until after midnight over the evening 's entertainment , declaring it to be the `` very greatest bee they ever went to . '' Phœbe Small , having no sister to talk it over with , kept the candle burning until late that night , while she wrote in her diary a lengthy description of the event . Phœbe had heard her mother tell of keeping a diary when she was young , so , of course , Phœbe , who ardently admired her mother , immediately commenced to keep one . Old Sandy McLeod , as he gallantly helped Helen Dayton to alight at Mrs. Gray 's door , thanked her over and over again for the pleasure she had given him in allowing him to be her escort , telling her that he was glad enough that she had urged him to play the pipes , since the music had given such pleasure ; adding , `` Old Nathan and old Sandy hae ' na been the best of friends and neighbors , but to-night we hae shaken hands an ' we 're to be friends forever . ''