ten o’clock in the morning
Will you follow me in , kind reader ? It is only ten in the morning , certainly , as you point out ; but I daresay she will receive such intimate friends , all the same . Oh , yes ; she 'll see us all right . It is ten o'clock in the morning , and we are at Maria Alexandrovna 's , and in that room which the mistress calls her `` salon '' on great occasions ; she has a boudoir besides . In this salon the walls are prettily papered , and the floor is nicely painted ; the furniture is mostly red ; there is a fireplace , and on the mantelpiece a bronze clock with some figure -- a Cupid -- upon it , in dreadfully bad taste . There are large looking-glasses between the windows . Against the back wall there stands a magnificent grand piano -- Zina 's -- for Zina is a musician .