eight o’clock precisely
I 've been waiting for your opinion . '' Razumihin opened the note which was dated the previous evening and read as follows : `` Dear Madam , Pulcheria Alexandrovna , I have the honour to inform you that owing to unforeseen obstacles I was rendered unable to meet you at the railway station ; I sent a very competent person with the same object in view . I likewise shall be deprived of the honour of an interview with you to-morrow morning by business in the Senate that does not admit of delay , and also that I may not intrude on your family circle while you are meeting your son , and Avdotya Romanovna her brother . I shall have the honour of visiting you and paying you my respects at your lodgings not later than to-morrow evening at eight o'clock precisely , and herewith I venture to present my earnest and , I may add , imperative request that Rodion Romanovitch may not be present at our interview -- as he offered me a gross and unprecedented affront on the occasion of my visit to him in his illness yesterday , and , moreover , since I desire from you personally an indispensable and circumstantial explanation upon a certain point , in regard to which I wish to learn your own interpretation . I have the honour to inform you , in anticipation , that if , in spite of my request , I meet Rodion Romanovitch , I shall be compelled to withdraw immediately and then you have only yourself to blame . I write on the assumption that Rodion Romanovitch who appeared so ill at my visit , suddenly recovered two hours later and so , being able to leave the house , may visit you also . I was confirmed in that belief by the testimony of my own eyes in the lodging of a drunken man who was run over and has since died , to whose daughter , a young woman of notorious behaviour , he gave twenty-five roubles on the pretext of the funeral , which gravely surprised me knowing what pains you were at to raise that sum .