twelve o'clock
There seemed no end to it , and it led them through the corridor , out of that into the kitchen , then out to a small store-room built beneath the kitchen porch . Here the end was tied to a very suggestive-looking tub . Had Diogenes succeeded in discovering an honest man he could not have felt greater satisfaction than these girls felt at the sight of that modest little oval tub , with its sawdust covering ; and the way in which it was pounced upon , and borne in triumph to the laundry , brings my story of that night 's revels to a climax , and no more need be told . When the twelve o'clock train whistled it was the signal for the revels to end , and , ere the carriages which were to meet the theatre-goers could bring them up the hill , Sunny Bank was as quiet and peaceful as though all its inmates had been dreaming for hours . The weather had become beautifully soft and balmy for the middle of April , and the girls were able to sit out of doors , and do many of the things they had not hoped to do till May should burgeon and bloom . A few days after the frolic Toinette was sitting in one of the pretty little summer-houses , of which there were several dotted about the grounds , when Miss Howard came in and took her seat beside her . `` You have been playing at hide-and-seek with me without knowing it , '' she said , `` for I have been searching for you everywhere , and only discovered you here by the glint of the sunshine upon your hair . ''