ten o'clock
It had received the addition of a steamboat and was called `` the Harbor of Marseilles . '' The curious bystanders were bestowing on it a flattering ovation . Marcel returned home in ecstacy at his triumph , muttering to himself , _ Vox populi , voz Dei _ . The Toilette of the Graces Mademoiselle Mimi , who was accustomed to sleep far into the day , woke up one morning at ten o'clock , and was greatly surprised not to find Rodolphe beside her , nor even in the room . The preceding night , before falling to sleep , she had , however , seen him at his desk , preparing to spend the night over a piece of literary work which had been ordered of him , and in the completion of which Mimi was especially interested . In fact , the poet had given his companion hopes that out of the fruit of his labors he would purchase a certain summer gown , that she had noticed one day at the `` Deux Magots , '' a famous drapery establishment , to the window of which Mimi 's coquetry used very frequently to pay its devotions . Hence , ever since the work in question had been begun , Mimi had been greatly interested in its progress .