ten in the morning
Never going out except to drive , she was losing her walking powers . She reverted to low childish tastes , would kiss Bijou from morning to night and kill time with stupid pleasures while waiting for the man whose caresses she tolerated with an appearance of complaisant lassitude . Amid this species of self-abandonment she now took no thought about anything save her personal beauty ; her sole care was to look after herself , to wash and to perfume her limbs , as became one who was proud of being able to undress at any moment and in face of anybody without having to blush for her imperfections . At ten in the morning Nana would get up . Bijou , the Scotch griffon dog , used to lick her face and wake her , and then would ensue a game of play lasting some five minutes , during which the dog would race about over her arms and legs and cause Count Muffat much distress . Bijou was the first little male he had ever been jealous of . It was not at all proper , he thought , that an animal should go poking its nose under the bedclothes like that !