ten o'clock
If you refrain from meeting that discomfiting gaze -- and her familiars have learned to avoid it -- Diana impresses you as being graceful , dainty and possessed of charming manners . Her taste in dress is perfect . She converses fluently on many topics . It is her custom to rise at ten o'clock , whatever time she may have retired the night before ; to read until luncheon ; to devote the remainder of her day to the requirements of society . Eligible young men of admitted social standing call upon Diana at such intervals as the proprieties require . They chatter `` small talk '' and are careful to address her with deference . With an exception to be referred to later these young men have no more thought of `` flirting '' with Miss Von Taer than they would with the statue of the goddess , her namesake .