ten o'clock
Her quick fingers washed and rubbed and dusted . In less than a week she knew every glass and cup in Cousin Mary Leicester 's well-filled china cupboard , and she and Thérèse between them kept the two sitting-rooms spotless . She who had at once made friends and tools of Lady Henry 's servants , disdained , so it appeared , to be served beyond what was absolutely necessary in her own house . A charwoman , indeed , came in the morning for the roughest work , but by ten o'clock she was gone , and Julie , Madame Bornier , and the child remained in undisputed possession . Little , flat-nosed , silent Madame Bornier bought and brought in all they ate . She denounced the ways , the viands , the brigand 's prices of English _ fournisseurs _ , but it seemed to Julie , all the same , that she handled them with a Napoleonic success . She bought as the French poor buy , so far as the West End would let her , and Julie had soon perceived that their expenditure , even in this heart of Mayfair , would be incredibly small .