eleven o'clock
After all , she was only a woman and the ordeal through which she had passed would have taxed the strongest powers of endurance . She had borne up courageously while there remained the faintest chance that she might succeed in moving the financier to pity , but now that all hopes in that direction were shattered and she herself had been ordered harshly from the house like any ordinary malefactor , the reaction set in , and she gave way freely to her long pent-up anguish and distress . Nothing now could save her father -- not even this journey to Washington which she determined to take nevertheless , for , according to what Stott had said , the Senate was to take a vote that very night . She looked at the time -- eleven o'clock . She had told Mr. Ryder that she would leave his house at once , but on reflection it was impossible for a girl alone to seek a room at that hour . It would be midnight before she could get her things packed . No , she would stay under this hated roof until morning and then take the first train to Washington .