eight o’clock in the morning
She would have money in her hand to give the hall-porter and the footman , so that they should let her in , and not raising her veil , she would say that she had come from Seryozha 's godfather to congratulate him , and that she had been charged to leave the toys at his bedside . She had prepared everything but the words she should say to her son . Often as she had dreamed of it , she could never think of anything . The next day , at eight o'clock in the morning , Anna got out of a hired sledge and rang at the front entrance of her former home . `` Run and see what 's wanted . Some lady , '' said Kapitonitch , who , not yet dressed , in his overcoat and galoshes , had peeped out of the window and seen a lady in a veil standing close up to the door . His assistant , a lad Anna did not know , had no sooner opened the door to her than she came in , and pulling a three-rouble note out of her muff put it hurriedly into his hand .