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No ! The eventfulness of the night originated in reflection upon the relations between Sissie and Ozzie Morfey . If thoughts could take physical shape and solidity , the events of the night would have amounted to terrible collisions and catastrophes in the devil-haunted abysses of Mr. Prohack 's brain . The forces of evil were massacring all opponents between three and four a.m. . It was at this period Mr. Prohack was convinced that Sissie , in addition to being an indescribably heartless daughter , was a perfect fool hoodwinked by a perfect ass , and that Ozzie 's motive in the affair was not solely or chiefly admiration for Sissie , but admiration of the great fortune which , he had learnt , had fallen into the lap of Sissie 's father . After five o'clock , according to the usual sequence , the forces of evil lost ground , and at six-thirty , when the oblong of the looking-glass glimmered faintly in the dawn , Mr. Prohack said roundly : `` I am an idiot , '' and went to sleep . `` Now , darling , '' said Eve when he emerged from the bathroom .