Ten minutes to five
Sonia went back to the writing-table ; just the slightest deepening of the faint pink roses in her cheeks marked her sense of Germaine 's rudeness . After three years as companion to Germaine Gournay-Martin , she was well inured to millionaire manners ; they had almost lost the power to move her . Germaine dropped into a chair for twenty seconds ; then flung out of it . `` Ten minutes to five ! '' she cried . `` Jacques is late . It 's the first time I 've ever known him late . ''