about midday
They were alone together : she confided in him : he tried hard to understand and advise her : she listened to his advice , or , if necessary , to his remonstrances , gravely , attentively , like a good little girl : it was a distraction , an interest , even a support for her : she thanked him coquettishly with a depth of feeling in her eyes . -- But her life was changed in nothing : it was only a distraction the more . Her day was passed in a succession of metamorphoses . She got up very late , about midday , after a sleepless night : for she rarely went to sleep before dawn . All day long she did nothing . She would vaguely call to mind a poem , an idea , a scrap of an idea , or a face that had pleased her . She was never quite awake until about four or five in the afternoon .