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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 . He came a week later , administered one coat , and vanished for another ten days . Then two masons suddenly came with heavy tools , and were shocked to find that all was not prepared for them . -LRB- After three carpetless weeks Constance had relaid her floors . -RRB-