ten o'clock
_ I think he 's served his purpose . _ As we 're here , we 'll stop here . Do n't forget it 's the most sensible kind of a house you 've ever seen . Do n't forget that Mrs Cotterill could run it without a servant and have herself tidy by ten o'clock in a morning . '' Mrs Machin perceived then , in a flash of terrible illumination , that there never had been any Cecil Wilbraham ; that Denry had merely invented him and his long moustaches and his wall eye for the purpose of getting the better of his mother . The whole affair was an immense swindle upon her . Not a Mr Cecil Wilbraham , but her own son had bought her cottage over her head and jockeyed her out of it beyond any chance of getting into it again .