five o’clock until eleven
None of the band were very drunk , for the leader had kept his intended visit to Nastasia in view all day , and had done his best to prevent his followers from drinking too much . He was sober himself , but the excitement of this chaotic day -- the strangest day of his life -- had affected him so that he was in a dazed , wild condition , which almost resembled drunkenness . He had kept but one idea before him all day , and for that he had worked in an agony of anxiety and a fever of suspense . His lieutenants had worked so hard from five o'clock until eleven , that they actually had collected a hundred thousand roubles for him , but at such terrific expense , that the rate of interest was only mentioned among them in whispers and with bated breath . As before , Rogojin walked in advance of his troop , who followed him with mingled self-assertion and timidity . They were specially frightened of Nastasia Philipovna herself , for some reason . Many of them expected to be thrown downstairs at once , without further ceremony , the elegant and irresistible Zaleshoff among them .