Here's an illustration from the 1958 short story Susan and the Home-made Bomb. We can see the awful Peregrine Gascoigne toying with his chemistry set, which he has set up in the so-called rumpus-room, just as Susan arrives. As usual, Susan is going to come out much the worse after her encounter with Pea-green.
Peregrine pulls his old stunt of frightening Susan by dressing up as a hairy monster in Susan's Trying Term, when the girls take a break from school in Wichwood Village.