eight o’clock
`` Do n't put your nose outside in the darkness , or at any rate take Egorka with you to carry a lantern . '' `` No , I will go alone . It is not necessary for anyone to disturb us . '' `` You ought not , '' intervened Tiet Nikonich politely , `` to go out after eight o'clock on these damp nights . I would not have ventured to detain you , but a physician from Düsseldorf on the Rhine , whose book I am now reading and can lend you if you like , and who gives excellent advice , says ... '' Paulina Karpovna interrupted him by asking him if he would see her home , and then went into the garden before he could resume his remarks . He agreed to her request and shut the door after her . Soon after Paulina Karpovna 's exit there was a rustling and crackling on the precipice , and Raisky wearing the aspect of a restless , wounded animal , appeared out of the darkness .