two at night
`` Oh , I thought I 'd come on , '' Isabelle replied vaguely , not liking to mention the trial . `` And you found your way out here , and navigated that ewer safely ! The boys find it surpassingly attractive , -- as a coal mine , or a canal in Mars , or the Panama ditch . I 've tried to induce Mr. Jorgesson , the contractor , to hang out a lantern or two at night . But he evidently thinks well of the caution and sobriety of the Johnston family and prefers to take his chances of a suit for damages . So far the family has escaped . '' Alice 's face showed two girlish dimples , while she talked glibly , -- too glibly , Isabelle thought .