seven o'clock
Demonstrations of admiration and respect followed , much parade and many speeches , mingled with witticisms over his size and her smallness . This lasted from five in the evening till after midnight , in rather mixed company . As time wore on , and the champagne continually flowed , many of the guests became boisterous and somewhat intrusive , and among them the bridegroom . The next morning , at seven o'clock , Ella sat dressed and alone , in a room next to their bedroom , the door of which stood open . From it she could hear her husband 's snores . She sat there still and deadly pale , without tears and without feeling . She divided the occurrences into two -- what had happened and what had been said ; what had been said and what had happened : she did not know which was the worst .