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His mother had not advised this . Perhaps indeed , if she had not been secretly concentrated on herself and her own desires that evening , she would have made Jimmy stay up till at least half-past ten , even though he was `` jolly sleepy . '' He had slept for at least two hours in the forest . She ought to have remembered that , but she had forgotten it , and when , at a quarter to nine , on an enormous yawn , Jimmy had announced that he thought he would `` turn in and get between the sheets , '' she had almost eagerly acquiesced . She wanted her boy asleep , soundly asleep that night . When the clock had struck nine he had already traveled beyond the land of dreams . The night was intensely hot and airless .