She looked first to the left, then to the right, then straight before her, apparently without seeing anything, and at last slowly settled down, with her two eyes, blank of any particular meaning, directed upon the Colonel.
"What time is 't ?" she said.
"Ten o'clock.

What y' been dreamin' abaout?
Y' giv a jump like a hopper-grass.

Wake up, wake UP! Th' party 's over, and y' been asleep all the mornin'.

The party's over, I tell ye! Wake up!" "Over!" said Mrs.Sprowle, who began to define her position at last,--"over! I should think 't was time 't was over! It's lasted a hundud year.

I've been workin' for that party longer 'n Methuselah's lifetime, sence I been asleep.