nine o'clock
I do not know , but I think , perhaps , here madame can go without anything , unless , of course , she is going to be with Frenchmen . But if madame is much in the sun , at night she should be careful to put -- '' And the maid ran on , happy in a subject that appealed to her whole nature . Mrs. Armine dined alone and quickly . It was past nine o'clock when she finished , and went out to sit on the terrace and to smoke her cigarette and drink her coffee . In returning from the mountains she had scarcely spoken to Ibrahim , and had not spoken to Hamza except to wish him good-night upon the bank of the Nile . She remembered now the expression in his almond-shaped eyes when he had returned her salutation -- an unfathomable expression of ruthless understanding that stripped her nature bare of all disguises , and seemed to leave it as it was for all the men of this land to see . Ibrahim 's eyes never could look like Hamza 's .