ten o'clock
She lighted the burner and warmed the milk . Then , swallowing three of the cachets from the phial , she drank the milk . Each cachet contained three decigrams of malourea , the insidious drug notorious under its trade name of Veronal . She slept deeply , and was not awakened until ten o'clock . Her breakfast consisted of a cup of strong coffee ; but when Monte Irvin arrived at eleven Rita exhibited no sign of nerve exhaustion . She looked bright and charming , and Irvin 's heart leapt hotly in his breast at sight of her . Following some desultory and unnatural conversation : `` May I speak quite frankly to you ? ''