two o'clock
To sell , such things as mere toys , he regarded as little short of a sacrilege , while even to part with them at all cost him a pang like that the gold-worker of Florence experienced when he saw some treasure of Benvenuto 's chisel leave his possession . Not , indeed , that honest Hans had to struggle against that criminal passion which prompted the jeweller , even by deeds of assassination , to repossess himself of the coveted objects ; nay , on the contrary , he felt a kindness and a degree of interest towards those in whose keeping they were , as if some secret sympathy united them to each other . Is it any wonder if poor Hans forgot himself in such pleasant company , and sat a full hour and a half longer than he ought ? To him the little intervals of silence that were occasionally suffered to intervene were but moments of dreamy and delicious revery , wherein his fancy wandered away in a thousand pleasant paths ; and when at last the watchman for remember , good reader , they were in that primitive Germany where customs change not too abruptly announced two o'clock , little Hans did not vouchsafe a grateful response to the quaint old rhyme that was chanted beneath the window . `` That little chap would sit to the day of judgment , and never ask to wet his lips , '' said Dal ton , as Frank accompanied the dwarf downstairs to the street door . `` I believe he not only forgot the hour , but where he was , and everything else , '' said Kate . `` And poor Frank !