midnight
`` She goes to bed to sleep ! No prowling around for her after she has once decided that all the chickens are on the roost . '' And Nancy , with a suspicion deep in her mind that it was all wrong , and yet willing to suffer much for the sake of gaining `` popularity , '' so-called , allowed Cora to go ahead with the preparations for the coming surreptitious feast . Nancy might have given too much thought and time to the coming `` midnight spread , '' and neglected her lessons a bit had Cora Rathmore not taken the entire arrangements for the affair into her own hands . Cora did not seem to mind getting only `` fair '' marked on her weekly reports . She just shrugged her shoulders and said : '' _ I _ should worry ! '' But before Nancy plucked up the courage to say anything about who was to be invited she found that Cora had already seen to that -- Cora and Grace Montgomery .