Half hour
3 hours
30 minutes
Three hours
How long did the last act of the evening take before it was completed?
The author was to take a picture
Drawing a picture
Taking aphoto
Drawing a picture of the people at the party
The party
The speaker drawing the festivities
Singing together
Sketching a picture of the scene
The author was to draw a picture of them
Drawing the party
A drawing of the party
Singing a song
What was the last act of the evening?
Drawing Mamie
Taking the picture
Sketching a picture of the scene
Drawing the party
Cleaning up after the party
Drawing the picture
What task took more than three hours to complete?
No
No one
Mamie
Was the author usually an admirer of the women in a plush Gainsborough hat and a gown of wine-coloured silk.
The Captain
The author
Mamie
Who glowed in that poor place, fair as a star?
No
Yes
Did the artist partly draw a character named Johnson in outline?
No
Yes
Did the speaker do as the captain requested?
No
Yes
Did the speaker devote their attention to the character in a plush Gainsborough hat?
 The little party in the cabin, so disastrously begun, finished, under the mellowing influence of wine and woman, in excellent feeling and with some hilarity.  Mamie, in a plush Gainsborough hat and a gown of wine-coloured silk, sat, an apparent queen, among her rude surroundings and companions.  The dusky litter of the cabin set off her radiant trimness: tarry Johnson was a foil to her fair beauty; she glowed in that poor place, fair as a star; until even I, who was not usually of her admirers, caught a spark of admiration; and even the captain, who was in no courtly humour, proposed that the scene should be commemorated by my pencil.  It was the last act of the evening.  Hurriedly as I went about my task, the half-hour had lengthened out to more than three before it was completed: Mamie in full value, the rest of the party figuring in outline only, and the artist himself introduced in a back view, which was pronounced a likeness.  But it was to Mamie that I devoted the best of my attention; and it was with her I made my chief success. 