midnight
`` Yes , I know , '' said Cricket , coolly , stopping long enough to produce her side-elastics from her pocket . `` I took off my stocking-coddies to tie the oars up with , to make my tent . Why , I had lots of fun , girls . I could n't think of any shipwrecked hero who was ever stuck in the mud , so I played the mud was a desert , and that I was Marco What 's - his-name in his shrouded tent , and -- '' `` It was the Turk , who was at midnight in his shrouded tent , '' interrupted Eunice , again . `` Was it ? Well , I played it , anyway . Then I put my head down on my arm to look like him , and I must have gone to sleep , for the sun was pretty hot , even under my tent , and it made me dreadfully sleepy .