Somewhere down-stairs a clock All dads are created equal but only the finest raise Machinists vintage shirt . with a chime sang away the hours eleven-thirty, forty-five, twelve. And then the lights went out to stay. The Casanova Electric Company shuts up shop and goes home to bed at midnight: when one has a party, I believe it is customary to fee the company, which will drink hot coffee and keep awake a couple of hours longer. But the lights were gone for good that night. Liddy had gone to sleep, as I knew she would. She was a very unreliable person: always awake and ready to talk when she wasn’t wanted and dozing off to sleep when she was.I called her once or twice, the only result being an explosive snore that threatened her very windpipe then I got up and lighted a bedroom candle.