midnight
`` Go off a little way from the others and build a small fire and sit there in the still woods and watch . Nyoda always wanted me to do it some time , and I promised her I would if I got a chance . '' `` We 'd better ask Aunt Clara about it first , '' said Hinpoha . Aunt Clara said that after such a strenuous day 's paddling , and with the prospect of another one before them it would be out of the question for them to sit up all night , but they might stay up until midnight if they chose and sleep several hours later in the morning . Everyone else was too dead tired to want to sit up , so the two of them departed quietly into the woods where they could not hear the voices of the others and built a tiny fire . The proper way to keep watch in the woods is to do it all alone , but Hinpoha and Gladys compromised by agreeing not to say one word to each other all the while they sat there , but to think their own thoughts in absolute silence . If the city girl thinks there is not a sound to be heard in the woods at night she should keep the watch some time and listen .