nine o'clock
Bert and his wife celebrated the occasion with a quart of oysters , eaten with hat-pins from a quart measure . The invalid slumbered in the same room , behind a screen . He was having a very light attack , and Nancy , who had been hanging over him all day , was reassured to-night , and in wild spirits . She laughed the tears into her eyes when Albert Senior , hearing the tentative horns at nine o'clock , telephoned the fish market for the wherewithal to celebrate . Bert had been hanging pictures , and was dirty and tired , but they got quite hysterical with merriment over their feast . The `` new boy , '' as they called the baby , presently was brought in , and had his own meal , before the old-fashioned coal fire . Nancy sat dreaming over the small curved form .