text:  He was wont to jump up throw up his window thrust out a red face and a white nightcap and after listening a few seconds for the chance of the odious sounds being repeated would put the very pertinent question usual in such circumstances to which one so seldom gets an equally pertinent reply--"Who's that?" In case this intimation of Mr Perkins being wide awake proved sufficient as it often did to restore quiet then after the lapse of a few more seconds the head and the nightcap disappeared and the window was shut down again