ten minutes after
midnight
`` Thave me ! '' wailed Tommy . Jane suggested that Harriet ought to have a ducking , then one by one the girls dropped off to sleep . The clock that Harriet consulted showed the hour to be ten minutes after midnight . She had awakened suddenly , and with a feeling that something were not as it should be . The girl rose softly , peering through the window . The `` Red Rover '' was lying very quietly , there being little movement of the water .