ten o’clock
Although Marianne was expecting her eleventh child before long , she decided to accompany her husband . It would have pained her to be unable to give this proof of affection to her cousins , who , all things considered , had treated Blaise and his young wife very kindly . Moreover , she was really grieved by the terrible catastrophe . So she and her husband , after distributing the day 's work among the servants , set out for Janville station , which they reached just in time to catch the quarter-past ten o'clock train . It was already rolling on again when they recognized the Lepailleurs and their son Antonin in the very compartment where they were seated . Seeing the Froments thus together in full dress , the miller imagined that they were going to a wedding , and when he learnt that they had a visit of condolence to make , he exclaimed : `` Oh ! so it 's just the contrary .