Finding Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel, in Knightsbridge, with Reginald Turner, both men advised Wilde to get a boat-train to France, but he refused, his mother advised him to stay and fight, and Wilde reportedly said: "The train has gone. It's too late." Following Wilde’s imprisonment in 1895, Ross went abroad but he returned to offer both financial and emotional support to Wilde during his last years. Ross remained loyal to Wilde and was with him when he died on 30 November 1900.