midnight
`` I wonder who it was ? The servants are afraid to come up here . They believe it is haunted . Lights have been seen at midnight , shining through some of these windows , and the only persons who are not afraid are the housekeeper and the butler , who come twice a year , and clean out the dust . '' The young people found themselves in a vast attic whose edges were hidden by dense shadows . The center was lighted by dormer windows , here and there , that gleamed like so many eyes from the high sloping roof . Scattered about were all sorts of odds and ends of antiquated furniture , chests of drawers , hair trunks , carved boxes and spinning wheels .