eight o'clock
He 'll come to no harm . '' A lacquey now entered to announce that the coach was ready , and Madame Langai , adjusting her mantilla , went to the playhouse where the actors were , at least , amusing . Old Lapussa always liked to have under his eye , night and day , some one or other whom he could plague and worry . Till eight o'clock every evening he was fully occupied in tormenting the whole family . Then Madame Langai went to the theatre and Henrietta and the governess had to sit down at the piano in the large drawing-room till it was time to put the child to bed . But when Clementina and the domestics had had supper and there was no longer anybody else with him , the turn of the night nurse began . The duties of a night nurse are never very enviable or diverting at the best of times , yet penal servitude for life was a fate almost preferable to being the nocturnal guardian of old Demetrius Lapussa .