The old man came to her and said, "It is all over," and put her softly into the big chair.

She covered her face with her hands, and he must have thought she was crying, for he tried to comfort her.

But as soon as he was gone she rose, with such a queer face, and went on tiptoe to the bed, and looked intently at her husband, and then she clapped her hands joyously three times.
At last Tommy fell asleep with his mouth open, which is the most important thing that has been told of him as yet, and while he slept day came and restored the furniture that night had stolen.

But when the boy woke he did not even notice the change; his brain traversed the hours it had lost since he lay down as quickly as you may put on a stopped clock, and with his first tick he was thinking of nothing but the deceiver in the back of the bed.

He raised his head, but could only see that she had crawled under the coverlet to escape his wrath.