November 20th at Four P.M.
After a week the same advertisements appeared with three lines added : THE OPEN ARMS YES BUT WHY ? WHERE ? WHAT ? and then ten days after that came fresh ones : THE OPEN ARMS WILL OPEN WIDE On November 20th at Four P.M. N.B. WATCH THE SIGNPOSTS . And while the countryside -- an idle countryside , engaged almost wholly in holiday-making and glad of any new distraction -- began to be interested and asked questions , Mr. Twist was working day and night at getting the thing ready . All day long he was in Acapulco or out at the cottage , urging , hurrying , criticizing , encouraging , praising and admonishing . His heart and soul and brain was in this , his business instincts and his soft domestic side .