one o'clock
`` I do n't object to looking at the shops and the people for a little while , '' she admitted , and this time Felix did not wink at the picture , but contented himself with an expressive raising of his bushy eyebrows . The program he mapped out was adhered to faithfully . Joan was really tired , and the midday heat of Delgratz was not only novel but highly disagreeable . She retired to her room at one o'clock , and Felix heard her telling her maid to call her at three . The elderly Frenchwoman whom Joan employed as a compendium of all the domestic virtues was scandalized by the pestering she had already undergone at the hands of the hotel employees . They wanted to know everything about her mistress as soon as they were told that she was not Poluski 's wife , and the staid Pauline was at her wit 's end to parry the questions showered on her in bad French . Felix advised her not to understand when spoken to , and relieved her manifest distress by the statement that the hotel would see the last of them in a day or two .