midday
Tootles was less vulnerable . She howled consistently at each of his first half-dozen advances ; his courage began to wane with shocking rapidity ; his next half-hearted advances were in reality inglorious retreats . Spurred on by the sustaining Constance , he stood by his guns and at last was gratified to see faint signs of surrender . By midday he had conquered . Tootles permitted him to carry her up and down the station platform -LRB- she was too young to realise the risk she ran -RRB- . Edith and Constance , with the beaming nurse and O'Brien , applauded warmly when he returned from his first promenade , bearing Tootles and proudly heeled by Raggles . Fond mothers in the crowd of hurrying travellers found time to look upon him and smile as if to say , `` What a nice man ! ''