About ten o'clock in the morning
de Cardoville . Let us now speak of the divers events which , on that day , preceded the coming of Mdlle . de Cardoville to the garden-gate of the house in the Rue Blanche . About ten o'clock in the morning , the blinds of Adrienne 's bedchamber , closely shut , admitted no ray of daylight to this apartment , which was only lighted by a spherical lamp of oriental alabaster , suspended from the ceiling by three long silver chains . This apartment , terminating in a dome , was in the form of a tent with eight sides . From the ceiling to the floor , it was hung with white silk , covered with long draperies of muslin , fastened in large puffs to the wall , by bands caught in at regular distances by plates of ivory . Two doors , also of ivory , admirably encrusted with mother-of-pearl , led , one to the bath-room , the other to the toilet-chamber , a sort of little temple dedicated to the worship of beauty , and furnished as it had been at the pavilion of Saint Dizier House .