midnight
We are getting impatient , '' interposed Jack Bolling . `` The first day that Mrs. Smith was alone in the house , '' continued Harry , `` she was in the sitting room with the door open when a fragile old lady passed right through the hall . She disappeared into space . That very same night , just at midnight , when Mr. Peabody , Captain Smith and his wife were in the library , they heard the fall of a heavy body upstairs on the second floor . Captain Smith and Mr. Peabody rushed up the steps just in time to see an old man , leading a young girl by the hand , enter a room where the door was locked . When they got the door unfastened there was no one in the room . '' `` Harry , do n't go on with that horrible tale , '' entreated Lillian , looking timidly up at the dusty windows of the old house , under whose shadow they had taken refuge .