three o'clock
We introduced ourselves everywhere as husband and wife , wealthy landowners . People readily made our acquaintance and Ariadne had great social success everywhere . As she took lessons in painting , she was called an artist , and only imagine , that quite suited her , though she had not the slightest trace of talent . She would sleep every day till two or three o'clock ; she had her coffee and lunch in bed . At dinner she would eat soup , lobster , fish , meat , asparagus , game , and after she had gone to bed I used to bring up something , for instance roast beef , and she would eat it with a melancholy , careworn expression , and if she waked in the night she would eat apples and oranges . The chief , so to say fundamental , characteristic of the woman was an amazing duplicity . She was continually deceitful every minute , apparently apart from any necessity , as it were by instinct , by an impulse such as makes the sparrow chirrup and the cockroach waggle its antennæ .