eight o'clock
She was careless and selfish , but she was not hard-hearted ; for whenever she witnessed misery she hastened to relieve it , often sacrificing her own pleasures for the purpose ; but the people , hunger-bitten and in rags , seeing her splendour , and hearing reports of far more than was actually true , believed her hard-hearted ; and from being proud of her , and devoted to her , when she entered France as a bride , they learned at last to hate her from the bottom of their souls . There would be no end to the story of how many attendants the queen had , and what were the formalities observed among them . We will only briefly go over the history of a day , in order fully to understand how great was the reverse when she became a prisoner . The queen was awakened regularly at eight o'clock , at which hour her first lady of the bed-chamber entered the room , sad came within the gilt railing which surrounded the bed , bringing in one hand a pincushion , and in the other the book containing patterns of all the queen 's dresses , of which she had usually thirty-six for each season , besides muslin and other common dresses . The queen marked with pins the three she chose to wear in the course of that day ; -- one during the morning , another at dinner , and a third in the evening , -- at a card-party , a ball , or the theatre . The book was then delivered to a footman , who carried it to the lady of the wardrobe . She took down from the shelves and drawers these dresses and their trimmings ; while another woman filled a basket with the linen , etcetera , which her majesty would want that day .