ten o'clock
She had an overwhelming realization of impotence in every direction . It came upon her like a burden ; under it she grew sick and faint . At the door she stumbled , and she was hardly sure of her steps to her cab , which was drawn up by the curbstone , and in which she presently went blindly home . By ten o'clock that night she had herself , in a manner , in hand again . Her eyes were still wide and bitter , and the baffled , uncomprehending look had not quite gone out of them , but a line or two of cynical acceptance had drawn themselves round her lips . She had sat so long and so quietly regarding the situation that she became conscious of the physical discomfort of stiffened limbs . She leaned back in her chair and put her feet on another , and lighted a cigarette .