six o'clock
Please tell us ! '' she pleaded . Miss Phillips hesitated , glancing keenly at the eager faces of the girls around her , who now seemed perfectly calm and self-possessed . Then she looked at her watch ; it was not quite six o'clock . There would still be time ; but she hesitated to tell a ghost-story in the same house -- in the very room ! -- where the ghost was supposed to appear . It was the girls ' own tranquil manner that decided her .