3:00 in the morning
She sniped at herself for entertaining this absurd tingle that women often have long after the sexual stimulation is over . `` I am a female , '' she told herself , `` but I 'm no lowly woman . '' She picked up the clock . It was 3:00 in the morning . She told herself that if a client was giving her spurious romantic notions she needed to distance herself . She needed a break from physical prostitution . Before Hallmark removed her from their list of freelance artists for accidentally mailing in one of her profane sketches , she had had this as another form of income .