midnight
`` Now the card , '' she whispered , feeling in her pocket . A gust of wind fanned her cheek and something clicked . The door had blown shut ! There are pleasanter places to be at midnight than the dark room of a strange water tower , but Betty was not frightened . She tripped over some tool as she felt for the door and discovered that she had lost her sense of direction completely . `` I 'm all turned around , '' was the way she expressed it . `` I must start and go around the sides , feeling till I come to the door . ''