eight o'clock
The doctor lived in two of them which looked into the street , while Daryushka and the landlady with her three children lived in the third room and the kitchen . Sometimes the landlady 's lover , a drunken peasant who was rowdy and reduced the children and Daryushka to terror , would come for the night . When he arrived and established himself in the kitchen and demanded vodka , they all felt very uncomfortable , and the doctor would be moved by pity to take the crying children into his room and let them lie on his floor , and this gave him great satisfaction . He got up as before at eight o'clock , and after his morning tea sat down to read his old books and magazines : he had no money for new ones . Either because the books were old , or perhaps because of the change in his surroundings , reading exhausted him , and did not grip his attention as before . That he might not spend his time in idleness he made a detailed catalogue of his books and gummed little labels on their backs , and this mechanical , tedious work seemed to him more interesting than reading . The monotonous , tedious work lulled his thoughts to sleep in some unaccountable way , and the time passed quickly while he thought of nothing .