ten o'clock at night
Why , I would as soon have thought of entering her room without her permission as of burgling a church . I would sooner have committed that crime . I would certainly have done it if I had thought the state of her heart demanded the sacrilege . So at ten o'clock at night the door closed upon Florence , who had gently , and , as if reluctantly , backed up that fellow 's recommendations ; and she would wish me good night as if she were a cinquecento Italian lady saying good-bye to her lover . And at ten o'clock of the next morning there she would come out the door of her room as fresh as Venus rising from any of the couches that are mentioned in Greek legends . Her room door was locked because she was nervous about thieves ; but an electric contrivance on a cord was understood to be attached to her little wrist . She had only to press a bulb to raise the house .