four o’clock
She is dressed , as in old days , simply and beautifully , but carelessly ; her dress and her hair show visible traces of the sofas and rocking-chairs in which she spends whole days at a stretch . And she has lost the curiosity she had in old days . She has ceased to ask me questions now , as though she had experienced everything in life and looked for nothing new from it . Towards four o'clock there begins to be sounds of movement in the hall and in the drawing-room . Liza has come back from the Conservatoire , and has brought some girl-friends in with her . We hear them playing on the piano , trying their voices and laughing ; in the dining-room Yegor is laying the table , with the clatter of crockery . `` Good-bye , '' said Katya .