two o'clock in the morning
I do n't think the French window ever held a finer view than when she put aside the curtains , and stepped out . She had dressed herself simply and hurriedly , but with a woman 's knowledge of her best points ; so that you got the long curves of her shapely limbs , the shorter curves of her round waist and shoulders , the long sweep of her yellow braids , the light of her gray eyes , and even the delicate rose of her complexion , without knowing how it was delivered to you . The introduction by Mr. McClosky was brief . When Ridgeway had got over the fact that it was two o'clock in the morning , and that the cheek of this Tuolumne goddess nearest him was as dewy and fresh as an infant 's , that she looked like Marguerite , without , probably , ever having heard of Goethe 's heroine , he talked , I dare say , very sensibly . When Miss Jenny -- who from her childhood had been brought up among the sons of Anak , and who was accustomed to have the supremacy of our noble sex presented to her as a physical fact -- found herself in the presence of a new and strange power in the slight and elegant figure beside her , she was at first frightened and cold . But finding that this power , against which the weapons of her own physical charms were of no avail , was a kindly one , albeit general , she fell to worshipping it , after the fashion of woman , and casting before it the fetishes and other idols of her youth . She even confessed to it .