six o'clock
It appeared that a dinner had a week before been arranged by Prince Galitzine , to which the Grand Dukes Nicholas Nicholaievitch , Constantin Constantinovitch , and Michael Alexandrovitch , together with Generals Arapoff , Daniloff , Brusiloff , and Rennenkampf , had been invited . At first it was proposed to cancel the engagement owing to the critical position of affairs , but on the suggestion of the Grand Duke Nicholas it was not abandoned , for , as he pointed out , it would bring together the loyal leaders of the army on the eve of great events , and that , after dinner , views might be exchanged in confidence for the national benefit . Now earlier that same day Rasputin had given me a note to deliver to the Grand Duke Michael , whom I had failed to find , but was told that he was to dine at Prince Galitzine 's . So about half-past six o'clock I took it to the prince 's house , when , to my surprise , as I passed into the great hall I saw the same fair-haired young man to whom I had delivered that envelope in secret an hour before . He was one of the prince 's servants , but he had not seen me ! A sudden suspicion seized me . I asked to see the prince , and when shown up to his room I delivered the note for the Grand Duke .