about eleven o’clock
But Flannigan did not get up . He appeared , sheepishly , at half-past ten , and by that time Bella was down , in a towering rage , and had burned her hand and got the fire started , and had taken up a tray for Aunt Selina and herself . As the others straggled down they boiled themselves eggs or ate fruit , and nobody put anything away . Lollie Mercer made me some tea and scorched toast , and brought it , about eleven o'clock . `` I never saw such a house , '' she declared . `` A dozen housemaids could n't put it in order . Why should every man that smokes drop ashes wherever he happens to be ? ''