six p.m.
Though married , he led a very loose life , and his wife did the same , so they did not stand in each other 's way . This morning he had received a note from a Swiss girl , who had formerly been a governess in his house , and who was now on her way from South Russia to St. Petersburg . She wrote that she would wait for him between five and six p.m. in the Hotel Italia . This made him wish to begin and get through the sitting as soon as possible , so as to have time to call before six p.m. on the little red-haired Clara Vasilievna , with whom he had begun a romance in the country last summer . He went into a private room , latched the door , took a pair of dumb-bells out of a cupboard , moved his arms 20 times upwards , downwards , forwards , and sideways , then holding the dumb-bells above his head , lightly bent his knees three times . `` Nothing keeps one going like a cold bath and exercise , '' he said , feeling the biceps of his right arm with his left hand , on the third finger of which he wore a gold ring . He had still to do the moulinee movement -LRB- for he always went through those two exercises before a long sitting -RRB- , when there was a pull at the door .