ten o’clock at night
Everybody was wondering what Mr. Swaffer would do with him . `` He simply kept him . `` Swaffer would be called eccentric were he not so much respected . They will tell you that Mr. Swaffer sits up as late as ten o'clock at night to read books , and they will tell you also that he can write a cheque for two hundred pounds without thinking twice about it . He himself would tell you that the Swaffers had owned land between this and Darnford for these three hundred years . He must be eighty-five to-day , but he does not look a bit older than when I first came here . He is a great breeder of sheep , and deals extensively in cattle .