two o'clock
This conversation was very welcome to me . I was afraid he would mention Liza . But the good-natured cavalry officer was not a gossip , and , moreover , he despised all women , calling them , God knows why , green stuff . At two o'clock we had lunch , and at three we were at the place fixed upon -- the very birch copse in which I had once walked with Liza , a couple of yards from the precipice . We arrived first ; but the prince and Bizmyonkov did not keep us long waiting . The prince was , without exaggeration , as fresh as a rose ; his brown eyes looked out with excessive cordiality from under the peak of his cap . He was smoking a cigar , and on seeing Koloberdyaev shook his hand in a friendly way .