seven o'clock
`` Just the name of it , '' consented Mr. Clodd . `` Cheerfulness combined with temperance ; that 's the ideal . '' `` I 'll tell you what ` appened only last night , '' commenced Mrs. Postwhistle , seating herself the opposite side of the loo-table . `` A letter came for ` im by the seven o'clock post . I 'd seen ` im go out two hours before , and though I 'd been sitting in the shop the whole blessed time , I never saw or ` eard ` im pass through . E 's like that . It 's like ` aving a ghost for a lodger .