Not one of them had the smallest sense of trouble hanging over them; and they put away both the decanters and cruets, and came up to bed in their proper order, the master stopping down just to finish his cigar and see to the doors and the bringing up the silver, because there was no man-servant now.
And I heard him laughing at some little joke he made as he went into the bedroom.

A happier household never went to bed, nor one with better hopes of a happy time to come.

And the baby slept beside his parents in his little cot, as his mother liked to have him, with his blessed mouth wide open.
"Now we three (cook and Susan and myself) were accustomed to have a good time of it whenever the master first came home and the mistress was taken up with him.

We used to count half an hour more in bed, without any of that wicked bell-clack, and then go on to things according to their order, without any body to say any thing.

Accordingly we were all snug in bed, and turning over for another tuck of sleep, when there came a most vicious ringing of the outer bell.