ten o'clock at night
And a builder and a mason came and inspected doorways , and Constance felt that the end was upon her . She took up the carpet in the parlour and protected the furniture by dustsheets . She and Cyril lived between bare boards and dustsheets for twenty days , and neither carpenter nor mason reappeared . Then one surprising day the old window was removed by the carpenter 's two journeymen , and late in the afternoon the carpenter brought the new window , and the three men worked till ten o'clock at night , fixing it . Cyril wore his cap and went to bed in his cap , and Constance wore a Paisley shawl . A painter had bound himself beyond all possibility of failure to paint the window on the morrow . He was to begin at six a.m. ; and Amy 's alarm-clock was altered so that she might be up and dressed to admit him .