eight in the morning
The beauties of Paris are not classed and catalogued like the beauties of London ; they do not publish their portraits in the illustrated papers , or allow their photographs to be sold at the stationers . However , there is always a little staff , consisting of a score of women , who represent the grace , and charm , and beauty of Paris , which women , after ten or twelve years ' service , pass into the reserve , just like the old generals . Susie and Bettina immediately became part of this little staff . It was an affair of four - and-twenty hours -- of less than four-and-twenty hours , for all passed between eight in the morning and midnight , the day after their arrival in Paris . Imagine a sort of little ` feerie ' , in three acts , of which the success increases from tableau to tableau : 1st . A ride at ten in the morning in the Bois , with the two marvellous grooms imported from America . 2d .