eleven o'clock
For the present master and mistress of Sandal were not people who cared for complaints . `` If you can do the work , Ann , you may stay , '' said Sophia to the dissatisfied cook ; `` if not , the squire will pay you your due wages . He has a friend in London whose cook would like a situation in the country . '' After which explanation Ann behaved herself admirably , and never found her work hard , though dinner was two hours later , and the supper dishes were not sent in until eleven o'clock . But , though Julius had succeeded in bringing his table so far within his own ideas of comfort , in other respects he felt his impotence to order events . Every meal-time brought him in contact with the widow Sandal and with Charlotte ; and neither Sophia , nor yet himself , had felt able to request the late mistress to resign her seat at the foot of the table . And Sophia soon began to think it unkind of her mother not to see the position , and voluntarily amend it .