two o’clock
` He has come back , ' he wrote to her , ` sunburnt and dusty to his very eyebrows ; but where and why he went I do n't know ; wo n't you find out ? ' ` Wo n't you find out ! ' Elena whispered , ` as though he talked to me ! ' The next day , at two o'clock , Elena was standing in the garden before a small kennel , where she was rearing two puppies . -LRB- A gardener had found them deserted under a hedge , and brought them to the young mistress , being told by the laundry-maids that she took pity on beasts of all sorts . He was not wrong in his reckoning . Elena had given him a quarter-rouble . -RRB-