midnight
But underneath the bed of each and every girl who was to be in the party was a box or a basket filled to the brim with smuggled dainties . These containers held cold meat and pickles from the delicatessen shop near by . There was jelly . Olives and biscuits and fancy cakes with foolish icing on top were there -- everything in fact that goes to the making of a first class midnight feast . Miss Ada Dill , making her evening round of the dormitories to see that all was well and every girl in her place , found nothing to arouse her suspicions until she came to Billie 's dormitory . Then she paused , started to close the door , opened it again and stood still , intently listening . And it was Billie who , in her eagerness not to be discovered , almost gave the thing away .