midnight
`` I might have known better , though . '' `` That is generous in you , Anne , '' declared Mabel `` As hostess I would n't have been so selfish as to propose it , but -- '' `` Anne , if you really do n't care , I would like to room with Mabel , '' interposed Grace . `` I have so much to tell her that the rest of you have already heard . We can have lengthy midnight confabs without disturbing any one but ourselves . '' `` Then , that settles it . Room together you shall , '' averred Anne . `` There is no use in breaking up the Nesbit-Briggs Association .