Midnight
`` Tennis is off to-night . Strafe the old camp ! I wish the Romans had never lived ! '' A Midnight Scare Miss Gibbs 's plans for the enlargement of her pupils ' minds ran over a wide range of subjects from archæology to ambulance . As they expressed it , she was always springing some fresh surprise upon them . Like bees , they were expected to sip mental honey from many intellectual flowers . They had dabbled in chemistry till Ardiune spilt acid down Miss Gibbs 's dress , after which the experiments suddenly stopped .