about eleven o'clock
In fifteen minutes everything was settled and the doctor was driving away . He was in good spirits over the results of his mission , for that morning La Fleur had waylaid him as he went out and again had spoken to him about the possibility of hiring a little house in the suburbs . `` I am sure this arrangement will suit our good cook , '' he thought ; `` but as for its continuance , we must let time and circumstances settle that . '' The doctor reached home about eleven o'clock . `` What do you think it would be better to do , '' he said to his wife , when he had made his report , `` to stop at Mrs. Drane 's as I go out this afternoon , or to tell Cicely about our Cobhurst scheme , and let her tell her mother ? '' `` The thing to do , '' said Mrs. Tolbridge , closing her desk , at which she was writing , `` is for me to go and see Mrs. Drane immediately , and for you to send Cicely home and give her a lot of work to do at Cobhurst . They should go there this afternoon . ''