9 o'clock
The parents pooh-poohed it , of course , and told the children there was no cause for alarm . But when one of the little girls , after a restless , troubled effort to get to sleep , had had a strenuous nightmare , and had alarmed the household by shrieking that the woman in pink was beckoning , the older folk decided to investigate . The next night there was no ghost . Two fathers sat with the children in the Square from supper time until after 9 o'clock , but nothing happened . Naturally , the fathers thought it a pure case of nerves . But the children were so insistent and so circumstantial in their story that the older heads wavered and returned on the following evening . And then they saw the Ghost !