midnight
`` Then we 'll buy some buns at tuck and have a _ camouflage _ supper after the lecture , and the real one at midnight , '' retorted Sally May , not to be done out of her scheme . `` I wish we could ask Cathy , do n't you ? '' said Josephine ; `` she 's been such a dear that it seems a shame to have a glorification without her . '' Catherine , hard at work at her desk in her own room , caught the sound of her name , and the next sentence in an excited voice revealed the fact that a midnight supper was being planned for that very night . Her first impulse , of course , was to tell the crew that she had unwittingly overheard them , and use her influence as captain and prefect to stop the whole proceeding ; and then , because she was taking her duties as a prefect very seriously , she stopped to consider the little escapade in a new light . Sally May , Catherine could see , was going to be troublesome . Already she had chafed at several time-honoured rules and customs , for her sense of reverence for traditions had been stifled by her ceaseless change of residence , and Sally May was becoming exceedingly popular .