midnight
Once we had supper in the cellar , and the engineer caught us and we had a terrible time bribing him ; and last June , at Miss Gray 's school , five of us were caught in the teachers ' own sitting-room at three A.M. '' Her hearers looked horrified enough to satisfy even Sally May , who loved to tell a story , and she related one epic after another , until the York audience were convinced that life would not be worth living unless they too could recount similar tales when they went home for the Christmas vacation . Miss Marlowe and her rules were forgotten , and they laid their plans for a midnight supper . `` But Miss Marlowe knows that your box has arrived , '' objected practical Nancy . `` 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 .