about eleven o'clock
` It 's not often I have any bother with my servants , ' she would say , ` for they know that if there is any trouble I would just as soon clear them out and put on an apron and do the work myself . ' She was an accomplished house-mistress , and could bake her own bread : in towns not one woman in a thousand can bake . With the coachman she had little to do , for she could not rid herself of a sentimental objection to the carriage -- it savoured of ` airs ' ; when she used it she used it as she might use a tramcar . It was her custom , every day except Saturday , to walk to the shop about eleven o'clock , after her house had been set in order . She had been thoroughly trained in the business , and had spent a year at a first-rate shop in High Street , Kensington . Millinery was her speciality , and she still watched over that department with a particular attention ; but for some time past she had risen beyond the limitations of departments , and assisted her father in the general management of the vast concern . In commercial aptitude she resembled the typical Frenchwoman .