six o'clock
`` You seem to be very happy just now , '' observed Erkel with curiosity . During that day Virginsky had spent two hours in running round to see the members of the quintet and to inform them that Shatov would certainly not give information , because his wife had come back and given birth to a child , and no one `` who knew anything of human nature '' could suppose that Shatov could be a danger at this moment . But to his discomfiture he found none of them at home except Erkel and Lyamshin . Erkel listened in silence , looking candidly into his eyes , and in answer to the direct question `` Would he go at six o'clock or not ? '' he replied with the brightest of smiles that `` of course he would go . '' Lyamshin was in bed , seriously ill , as it seemed , with his head covered with a quilt . He was alarmed at Virginsky 's coming in , and as soon as the latter began speaking he waved him off from under the bedclothes , entreating him to let him alone .