A quarter to three
`` I will go away at once , '' she said . `` Will you be kind and take me to the Petersburg Side ? What time is it now ? '' `` A quarter to three . '' When , a little afterwards , we went out of the house , it was dark and deserted in the street . Wet snow was falling and a damp wind lashed in one 's face . I remember it was the beginning of March ; a thaw had set in , and for some days past the cabmen had been driving on wheels .