ten o'clock
Bones designed a circular table , so that , if any of the workmen forgot to fix a bar or a nut or a wheel , the error could be rectified when the car came round again . The Plover car should be a household word . Its factories should spread over North London , and every year there should be a dinner with Bones in the chair , and a beautiful secretary on his right , and Bones should make speeches announcing the amount of the profits which were to be distributed to his thousands of hands in the shape of bonuses . Hamilton came promptly at ten o'clock , and he came violently . He flew into the office and banged a paper down on Bones 's desk with the enthusiasm of one who had become the sudden possessor of money which he had not earned . `` Dear old thing , dear old thing , '' said Bones testily , `` remember dear old Dicky Orum -- preserve the decencies , dear old Ham . You 're not in the Wild West now , my cheery boy . ''