nine o’clock at night
He considered a revolution in economic conditions nonsense . But he always felt the injustice of his own abundance in comparison with the poverty of the peasants , and now he determined that so as to feel quite in the right , though he had worked hard and lived by no means luxuriously before , he would now work still harder , and would allow himself even less luxury . And all this seemed to him so easy a conquest over himself that he spent the whole drive in the pleasantest daydreams . With a resolute feeling of hope in a new , better life , he reached home before nine o'clock at night . The snow of the little quadrangle before the house was lit up by a light in the bedroom windows of his old nurse , Agafea Mihalovna , who performed the duties of housekeeper in his house . She was not yet asleep . Kouzma , waked up by her , came sidling sleepily out onto the steps .