nearly noon
Yet I did sleep , and heavily . She will always deny it , I know , but I 'm sure she must have slyly slipped a sleeping-powder into the chocolate . I was far too much occupied with my own thoughts , as I drank to please her , to think whether or no there was anything at all peculiar in the taste . Be that as it may , I slept ; and when I waked suddenly , starting out of a hateful dream -LRB- yet scarcely worse than realities -RRB- , to my horror it was nearly noon . I was wild with fear lest the servants , in their stupid but well-meant wish not to disturb me , might have sent important visitors away . However , when Marianne came flying in , in answer to my long peal of the electric bell , she said that no one had been . There were letters and one telegram , and all the morning papers , as usual after the first night of a new play .