eleven o'clock
The wife thought she would coax the good man into letting her keep them . And they were accommodating Hetty , poor thing -- a pretty , respectable-looking young woman , apparently in a sad case . They declined to take anything for her food and bed : she was quite welcome . And at eleven o'clock Hetty said `` Good-bye '' to them with the same quiet , resolute air she had worn all the morning , mounting the coach that was to take her twenty miles back along the way she had come . There is a strength of self-possession which is the sign that the last hope has departed . Despair no more leans on others than perfect contentment , and in despair pride ceases to be counteracted by the sense of dependence . Hetty felt that no one could deliver her from the evils that would make life hateful to her ; and no one , she said to herself , should ever know her misery and humiliation .