midnight
In another hour they were half-starved . `` I spect we 're lost , '' said Flaxie , calmly . `` Going to rain , too ; sun setting . Pretty near midnight -- '' Upon this Milly began to scream . `` Well , then , what made you hide behind the lilac-bush , and not invite the folks , Milly Allen ? '' exclaimed Flaxie , feeling obliged to scold _ somebody _ ; and then she too began to scream , though nobody heard , for they were three or four miles from the village . They wound in and out , in and out , among the trees ; but it was like a little bird putting his head through the bars of his cage .