ten o'clock
If he awoke before it was time for her to leave the house and renewed his love-making , her response would be as automatic as the progress of life itself . If she attempted to leave the house before sunrise , on no matter what pretext , his suspicions would be aroused , for she had told him that she had been given a week for rest . For the same reason she dared not awaken him and ask him to go . He would refuse , for it was no time to slip out of a woman 's apartment ; far better wait until ten o'clock , when there were always visitors of both sexes in her office . Moreover , he would no more wish to go than he would permit her to leave him . She was utterly in his power if he awakened and chose to exert it . He had mastered her , conquered her , routed her career and her peace , and she had gloried in her submission ; gloried in it still .