ten o'clock
Very easily might the girls have continued this discussion of their titles until the sun rose beyond their Sunrise Hill , had not Miss McMurtry suddenly looked at her watch by bending close to the light of their fire . Then she rose so quickly and with such a sharp exclamation of surprise that several of the girls got up with her . `` Camp Fire maidens , what are we thinking of ? It is after ten o'clock and we must say good-night and extinguish our fire . What a wonderful night it has been , so quiet , so serene that I think no one of us will soon forget it ! '' Very naturally she looked away from the group of girls close about her for a wider view of the landscape , hoping that this vision of its beauty might remain with her . Already the early splendor of the night was beginning to fade and although the moonlight still made the objects near by fairly distinct , farther off they were black and ghostlike .