midnight
Just as Satin , for instance , was paying for her bunch of radishes a young man , who might have been a shop-boy going late to his work , threw her a passing greeting : `` Good morning , duckie . '' She straightened herself up at once and with the dignified manner becoming an offended queen remarked : `` What 's up with that swine there ? '' Then she fancied she recognized him . Three days ago toward midnight , as the was coming back alone from the boulevards , she had talked to him at the corner of the Rue Labruyere for nearly half an hour , with a view to persuading him to come home with her . But this recollection only angered her the more . `` Fancy they 're brutes enough to shout things to you in broad daylight ! '' she continued .