eleven o'clock
cries Tita , running to her , and flinging herself into her arms . `` You are the only one who -- of _ his _ family '' -- with a baleful glance at Rylton over her shoulder -- `` who has been kind to me ! '' The guests have all gone ! The morning train had swallowed up the Hescotts , and the eleven o'clock had disposed of the rest . Only the Dowager Lady Rylton and Margaret still remain . The latter has decided on going by the evening train and taking Tita with her , deeming it best to separate husband and wife for a little while , until the calamity be overpast for a few weeks , at all events . As for Tessie , she had come with a determination to linger on until Christmas with her son and his wife , though asked for three weeks only ; and it is her son 's pleasing task to be obliged now to explain to her why and wherefore she must go back at once to the old home -- to The Place -- to the old home partially saved from ruin by his unhappy marriage , and now doomed to a sure destruction because of the loss of the fortune that had been the primary motive in the making of that marriage .