one o'clock
He goes down to the garden , feeling it impossible to sleep just now , and , coming back two hours later , finds the ring he had given her lying on his dressing-table . There is no note with it -- not even a single line . `` And now for the news , '' says the elder Lady Rylton , next morning , leaning back in her chair ; she objects to the word `` Dowager . '' Contrary to all expectations , she had arrived to-day at half-past eight , and is now , at one o'clock , sitting in her room with Mrs. Bethune before her . She had seen Tita , of course ; but only for a moment or so , as she had been in a hurry to get to her bedroom and her maid , and have the ravages that travel had laid upon her old-young face obliterated . She had , indeed , been furious -LRB- secretly -RRB- with Tita for having come out of her room to bid her welcome -- such bad taste , obtruding one 's self upon a person in the early hours of the morning , when one has only just left a train . But what _ can _ one expect from a plebeian !