midnight
`` You may not so easily escape responsibility for your acts , '' hissed the girl on the table . `` Those who enter Briarwood Hall must show themselves worthy of the high honor . It takes courage to come under the eye of Mrs. Tellingham ; it takes supernatural courage to come under the eye of Picolet ! '' `` If she was n't out of the house to-night you may believe we would n't be out of bed , '' murmured another of the midnight visitors , whom Ruth was quite sure was Belle Tingley . `` And I hope you made no mistake about _ that _ , Miss ! '' snapped the girl on the table . '' _ You _ went to her door . ''