midnight
She had an idea that sitting up all night in a forlorn , dirty old house was not going to be half as much sport as enthusiastic Madge anticipated . The little captain was not the only enthusiast in the ghost party , which was composed of herself , Phil , David and Miss Betsey . Miss Betsey Taylor had cast from her the sobriety of years . She was as eager and as interested in their midnight excursion as any young girl could have been . Not that the pursuit of ghosts had been a secret passion of Miss Betsey 's . It was only that , at the age of sixty , she was at last beginning to understand how it felt to be young , and she was as ready for adventure as any other one of the party of young folks . Indeed , she was far more eager than Lillian Seldon , who could not be persuaded even to contemplate the thought of approaching the `` ha ` nted house . ''