midnight
`` Well , it will all go to her children , and she 'll ruin 'em ! '' The prophetess proved to be mistaken in a single detail merely : except for that , her foresight was accurate . The wedding was of Ambersonian magnificence , even to the floating oysters ; and the Major 's colossal present was a set of architect 's designs for a house almost as elaborate and impressive as the Mansion , the house to be built in Amberson Addition by the Major . The orchestra was certainly not that local one which had suffered the loss of a bass viol ; the musicians came , according to the prophecy and next morning 's paper , from afar ; and at midnight the bride was still being toasted in champagne , though she had departed upon her wedding journey at ten . Four days later the pair had returned to town , which promptness seemed fairly to demonstrate that Wilbur had indeed taken Isabel upon the carefulest little trip he could manage . According to every report , she was from the start `` a good wife to him , '' but here in a final detail the prophecy proved inaccurate . Wilbur and Isabel did not have children ; they had only one .