midday
She loved mornings ; New York could never change her delight in the long forenoon . She was at work at two , and undisturbed for two hours . Beth 's studio was the garret of an old mansion , a step from Fifth Avenue in the Thirties . Its effect , as one entered , was golden at midday , and turned brown with the first shadows . Mrs. Wordling called at four . For a woman who had been scornfully analyzed by Kate Wilkes -LRB- who really could be vitriol-tongued -RRB- and ordered away from Vina Nettleton 's door like an untimely beggar , Mrs. Wordling looked remarkably well . In point of fact , Mrs. Wordling was ungovernably pretty .