seven
in the morning
You are misconceived and wronged , but I know you , and for every misconception , for every wrong , I will make you feel my comprehension day by day . '' She listened to such speeches with bowed head , allowing him to kiss her hands , and admitting silently but gracefully that she was indeed an angel misunderstood . `` I am too humiliated , '' she would say ; `` my past has robbed the future of all security . '' It was a glorious day for Calyste when , arriving at Les Touches at seven in the morning , he saw from afar Beatrix at a window watching for him , and wearing the same straw hat she had worn on the memorable day of their first excursion . For a moment he was dazzled and giddy . These little things of passion magnify the world itself . It may be that only Frenchwomen possess the art of such scenic effects ; they owe it to the grace of their minds ; they know how to put into sentiment as much of the picturesque as the particular sentiment can bear without a loss of vigor or of force .