nine o'clock
These were things not to be forgotten . When her husband died , Percy married and Clifford went to school , and Lady Kellynch was left alone in her big house in South Kensington , she became again what I call old-maidish . She had a hundred little rules and fussy little arrangements , of which the slightest disorganisation drove her to distraction . She had long consultations every day with the cook at nine o'clock as to what was to be done with what was left . She liked to be domestic , and would stand over the man who was cleaning the windows and tell him how to do it . Certain things she liked to do herself . In the drawing-room was a chandelier of the seventies , beautiful in its way , though out of date , and she used to take the lustres down and polish them with her own fingers , taking a great pride in doing this herself .