about eleven o’clock
At her own mistake , or because my answer struck her as insolent ? I should like the latter hypothesis to be correct . Grushnitski cast a discontented glance at me . Late in the evening , that is to say , about eleven o'clock , I went for a walk in the lilac avenue of the boulevard . The town was sleeping ; lights were gleaming in only a few windows . On three sides loomed the black ridges of the cliffs , the spurs of Mount Mashuk , upon the summit of which an ominous cloud was lying . The moon was rising in the east ; in the distance , the snow-clad mountains glistened like a fringe of silver .