midnight
Of late you 've been going upstairs to your room early every evening , and yesterday you did not come down at all , and so perhaps you do n't know how carefully he has begun to lock himself in at night , and even if Grigory Vassilyevitch comes to the door he wo n't open to him till he hears his voice . But Grigory Vassilyevitch does not come , because I wait upon him alone in his room now . That 's the arrangement he made himself ever since this to‐do with Agrafena Alexandrovna began . But at night , by his orders , I go away to the lodge so that I do n't get to sleep till midnight , but am on the watch , getting up and walking about the yard , waiting for Agrafena Alexandrovna to come . For the last few days he 's been perfectly frantic expecting her . What he argues is , she is afraid of him , Dmitri Fyodorovitch -LRB- Mitya , as he calls him -RRB- , ` and so , ' says he , ` she 'll come the back‐way , late at night , to me . You look out for her , ' says he , ` till midnight and later ; and if she does come , you run up and knock at my door or at the window from the garden .