midnight
`` Let me sit up ! '' cried Janey , `` as if I was obliged to do what she tells me ! '' Ursula gave a little shrug to her pretty shoulders , and looked at the clock . `` It is not midnight yet ; it is not nine o'clock , '' she said , with a sigh . `` I should have thought papa would have come home before now . Can he be staying at the Hall all night ? '' Just then , however , there was the well-known ring at the bell , and Ursula ran downstairs to see after her father 's supper .