midnight
`` Oh , '' breathed the girls in unison , `` what did you say ? '' `` Say ? You had better ask what did n't we say . We talked and talked and talked as fast as our tongues would go till after midnight , and we would n't have stopped then if mother had n't shooed us off to bed . Oh , I do n't think I was ever so happy in all my life ! '' `` But where do we come in ? '' insisted Jessie .