eleven o'clock
She sat up and managed to drag her matinee from a chair and put it around her shoulders . Then she sank back from weakness , physical and spiritual . She hated to receive Chirac in a bedroom , and particularly in that bedroom . But the hotel had no public room except the dining-room , which began to be occupied after eleven o'clock . Moreover , she could not possibly get up . Yes , on the whole she was pleased to see Chirac . He was almost her only acquaintance , assuredly the only being whom she could by any stretch of meaning call a friend , in the whole of Europe .