单项选择题

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的[A]、[B]、[C]三个选项中选出一个能填入空白处的最佳选项。

When I was there, he was still working. He said that he (1) for the last two hours (2) that he was going to stop (3) . He added that if I had arrived ten minutes later, I (4) at home. When I mentioned that the house looked quite (5) , he said that the woman (6) usually cleaned it had been sick for some time and (7) for over a week. When I asked him (8) he did not do it himself, he said that he (9) to do so if Mrs. Jones did not come the (10) day.