about ten o'clock
After the ` service ' was over , most of the children , including Charley and Frankie , remained to get collecting cards . Mr Starr was surrounded by a crowd of admirers , and a little later , when he rode away with Mr Belcher and Mr Sweater in the latter 's motor car , the ladies looked hungrily after that conveyance , listening to the melancholy ` pip , pip ' of its hooter and trying to console themselves with the reflection that they would see him again in a few hours ' time at the evening service . The Lodger In accordance with his arrangement with Hunter , Owen commenced the work in the drawing-room on the Monday morning . Harlow and Easton were distempering some of the ceilings , and about ten o'clock they went down to the scullery to get some more whitewash . Crass was there as usual , pretending to be very busy mixing colours . ` Well , wot do you think of it ? ' he said as he served them with what they required .