ten o'clock
said Georgia Ames , reflectively . `` It 's got us all acquainted a lot faster than anything else would , I guess , -- even if there was n't any food . '' `` Considering that we 've done everything else , you children might find the food -- '' began one of the ghosts , but a bell in the corridor interrupted her . `` Is that the twenty-minutes-to or the ten o'clock ? '' asked another ghost anxiously . `` Ten , '' said a freshman . `` The other rang while we were chasing smiles . ''