ten o'clock
She tried , but she could not , and she watched the dawn growing to cold daylight in the room , till the single lamp hardly glimmered in the corner . She closed her lids and rested as well as she could till it was time to get up . She was very pale , and there were deep violet shadows under her eyes and below the sharp arches of her brows , but Petersen was very near-sighted , and noticed nothing unusual . Cecilia told her to telephone to Guido , asking him to come at ten o'clock . When the maid returned , Cecilia bade her arrange her hair very low at the back and to make it as smooth as possible . There was not the slightest conscious desire for effect in the order ; when a woman has made up her mind to humiliate herself she always makes her hair look as unobtrusive as possible , just as a conscience-stricken dog drops his tail between his legs and hangs down his ears to avert wrath . We men are often very unjust to women about such things , which depend on instincts as old as humanity .