eleven in the morning
Even permitted the distribution of tiny cubes of ice by the hotel porter . It was a harmless kind of cheating . Their good dinners they ate in the hotel dining room when not invited to dine with married sons or daughters or friends . At ten or eleven in the morning you saw them issue forth , or you saw `` little '' manicures going in . One spoke of these as `` little '' not because of their size , which was normal , but in definition of their prices . There were `` little '' dressmakers as well , and `` little '' tailors . In special session they confided to one another the names or addresses of any of these who happened to be especially deft , or cheap , or modish .