noon
A miraculous capacity for happiness seemed to fill her breast , expanding with the fierce desire for it , until under the closed lids tears stole out , and there , in the darkness , she held out her bare arms to the world -- the kind , good , generous , warm-hearted world , which was waiting , just beyond her threshold , to welcome her and love her and companion her for ever . She awoke tired ; she had scarcely closed her eyes that night . The fresh odour of roses filled her room when her maid arrived with morning gifts from Kathleen and Scott . She lay abed until noon . They started dressing her about three . After that the day became unreal to her . * * * * * Manhattan was conventionally affable to Geraldine Seagrave , also somewhat curious to see what she looked like .