ten o'clock
Margaret made it an all but inflexible rule not to go out , but to rest and repair one evening in each week ; that was the evening , under the rule , but she would have broken the rule had any opportunity offered . Of course , for the first time since the season began , no one sent or telephoned to ask her to fill in at the last moment . She half-expected Craig , though she knew he was to be busy ; he neither came nor called up . She dined moodily with the family , sat surlily in a corner of the veranda until ten o'clock , hid herself in bed . She feared she would have a sleepless night . But she had eaten no dinner ; and , as indigestion is about the only thing that will keep a healthy human being awake , she slept dreamlessly , soundly , not waking until Selina slowly and softly opened the inner blinds of her bedroom at eight the next morning . There are people who are wholly indifferent about their surroundings , and lead the life dictated by civilized custom only because they are slaves of custom , Margaret was not one of these .