eight o'clock in the morning
You fear that my independent planner of living will frighten away all wooers ; but that is another reason for persisting in my independence , for I detest wooers . I only hope that they may have the very worst opinion of me , and there is no better means of effecting that object , than to appear to live as they live themselves . I rely upon my whims , my follies , my sweet faults , to preserve me from the annoyance of any matrimonial hunting . '' `` You will be quite satisfied on that head , '' resumed Madame de Saint Dizier , `` if unfortunately the report should gain credit , that you have carried the forgetfulness of all duty and decency , to such a height , as to return home at eight o'clock in the morning . So I am told is the case but I can not bring myself to believe such an enormity . '' `` You are wrong , madame , for it is quite true . '' `` So you confess it ? ''