two o’clock in the morning
Walk in , ladies and gentlemen , walk in ; the performance is about to commence ! Sophy lingers last . `` Yes , sir , '' said the blind man , who had been talking to the apprentice , `` yes , sir , '' said he , loud and emphatically , as if his word had been questioned . `` The child was snowed up , but luckily the window of the hut was left open : exactly at two o'clock in the morning , that dog came to the window , set up a howl , and -- '' Soppy could hear no more -- led away behind the curtain by the King 's Lieutenant . But she had heard enough to stir her heart with an emotion that set all the dimples round her lip into undulating play . A sham carries off a reality . And she did act , and how charmingly !