two o’clock
He saw before him the face of a quite young , fair-haired girl -- sixteen , perhaps not more than fifteen , years old , pretty little face , but flushed and heavy looking and , as it were , swollen . The girl seemed hardly to know what she was doing ; she crossed one leg over the other , lifting it indecorously , and showed every sign of being unconscious that she was in the street . Raskolnikov did not sit down , but he felt unwilling to leave her , and stood facing her in perplexity . This boulevard was never much frequented ; and now , at two o'clock , in the stifling heat , it was quite deserted . And yet on the further side of the boulevard , about fifteen paces away , a gentleman was standing on the edge of the pavement . He , too , would apparently have liked to approach the girl with some object of his own . He , too , had probably seen her in the distance and had followed her , but found Raskolnikov in his way .