liza thought she heard bells , too , and a distant drumming , and she was instantly reminded of the time several years earlier when her parents had had their christmas eve party , and she had woken up in the middle of the night to the sound of muffled laughter , and crept quietly to the stairs , and seen her mother asleep on the couch , eyes closed , and a few people still in the living room , dancing in bare feet , while her father played the guitar .