nine o'clock in the morning
Say that she -- _ is in the studio _ . '' Charmian spoke in thick gasps . The card was Ludlow 's ; and between the man 's going and Ludlow 's coming , she experienced a succession of sensations which were , perhaps , the most heroically perfect of any in a career so much devoted to the emotions . She did not stop to inquire what she should do after she got Ludlow there , or to ask herself what he was coming for , a little after nine o'clock in the morning ; she simply waited his approach in an abandon which exhausted the capabilities of the situation , and left her rather limp and languid when he did appear . If it had been her own affair she could not have entered into it with more zeal , more impassioned interest . So far as she reasoned her action at all , it was intended to keep Ludlow , after she got him there , till Cornelia should come , for she argued that if she should go for her Cornelia would suspect something , and she would not come at all . When Ludlow found Charmian and not Cornelia waiting for him , he managed to get through the formalities of greeting decently , but he had an intensity which he had the effect of not allowing to relax .