midnight
I wonder if this one has a spring lock . I wish we knew what is inside it . '' They made up their minds to ask Dr. Hunter about it , and went on with their investigation of the rooms , until both felt that they knew every door and passage in the place . Blanche was of the opinion that it would be of no use going to look for the ghost until after midnight . The time passed very slowly after they went to bed . They talked in whispers , Blanche telling all the ghost stories she had ever heard , which came chiefly from servants and from her young cousins in London . `` But mother says , '' she repeated several times , as if to reassure both herself and Marjory , `` that there is nothing more to do us harm at night than there is in the daytime ; that everything belongs to God , and so we are just as safe in the dark as in the light .