midnight
The one thing necessary is for me to run this Home according to the book , and if you 're fool enough to prefer a slap-dash boarding-house to this hygienic Home , why , you 'll make your bed -- or rather some slattern of a landlady will make it -- and you can lie in it . Come with me . No ; first read the rules . '' Una obediently read that the young ladies of the Temperance Home were forbidden to smoke , make loud noises , cook , or do laundry in their rooms , sit up after midnight , entertain visitors `` of any sort except mothers and sisters '' in any place in the Home , `` except in the parlors for that purpose provided . '' They were not permitted to be out after ten unless their names were specifically entered in the `` Out-late Book '' before their going . And they were `` requested to answer all reasonable questions of matron , or board of visitors , or duly qualified inspectors , regarding moral , mental , physical , and commercial well-being and progress . '' Una could n't resist asking , `` I suppose it is n't forbidden to sleep in our rooms , is it ? ''