midnight
She felt stunned . What did everything mean ? How queer of Nancy to have suddenly turned into a perfectly awful girl -- a sort of fiend -- a girl who had another girl completely in her power ; who could , and would if she liked , make that other girl wretched ; who could and would ruin that other girl 's life . There was a time when the midnight picnic seemed the most delightful thing on earth ; but it scarcely appeared delightful now to poor Pauline , whose head ached , whose arm ached , and whose whole body ached . What was she to do ? When she re-entered the shrubbery , her unhappy feelings were by no means lightened to see that Penelope was waiting for her . Penelope stood a little way off , her feet firmly planted a little apart , her straw hat pushed back from her sunburned face , her hands dropped straight to her sides .