midnight
Even Miss Minchin herself could scarcely have controlled the uproar after this ; and though she heard the noise , she did not try . She was not in the mood to face anything more than she was facing in her room , while Miss Amelia was weeping in bed . She knew that the news had penetrated the walls in some mysterious manner , and that every servant and every child would go to bed talking about it . So until almost midnight the entire seminary , realizing somehow that all rules were laid aside , crowded round Ermengarde in the schoolroom and heard read and re-read the letter containing a story which was quite as wonderful as any Sara herself had ever invented , and which had the amazing charm of having happened to Sara herself and the mystic Indian gentleman in the very next house . Becky , who had heard it also , managed to creep up stairs earlier than usual . She wanted to get away from people and go and look at the little magic room once more . She did not know what would happen to it .