eight o’clock in the morning
Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together , and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they , the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys . The wife did not leave her own room , the husband had not been at home for three days . The children ran wild all over the house ; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper , and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her ; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time ; the kitchen-maid , and the coachman had given warning . Three days after the quarrel , Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky -- Stiva , as he was called in the fashionable world -- woke up at his usual hour , that is , at eight o'clock in the morning , not in his wife 's bedroom , but on the leather-covered sofa in his study . He turned over his stout , well-cared-for person on the springy sofa , as though he would sink into a long sleep again ; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it ; but all at once he jumped up , sat up on the sofa , and opened his eyes . `` Yes , yes , how was it now ? '' he thought , going over his dream .