eleven o'clock
These last words were uttered in the anteroom , as Porhyrius very civilly led his visitors to the door . They were gloomy and morose on leaving the house , and had gone some distance before speaking . Raskolnikoff breathed like a man who had just been subjected to a severe trial . When , on the following day , precisely at eleven o'clock , Raskolnikoff called on the examining magistrate , he was astonished to have to dance attendance for a considerable time . According to his idea , he ought to have been admitted immediately ; ten minutes , however , elapsed before he could see Porphyrius Petrovitch . In the outer room where he had been waiting , people came and went without heeding him in the least . In the next room , which was a kind of office , a few clerks were at work , and it was evident that not one of them had even an idea who Raskolnikoff might be .