midnight
I do n't know . By eleven I should think . Oh ! any time before midnight . That 's the ghost 's own , is it not ? It is now -- let me see -- almost ten . '' `` Then I will go at once , '' said Hugh , thinking it better to meet the gradual approach of the phantom-hour in the room itself , than to walk there through the desolate house , and enter the room just as the fear would be gathering thickest within it .