seven o’clock
Yet to give her this message was obviously more difficult than before . The matter of the three thousand was decided irrevocably , and Dmitri , feeling himself dishonored and losing his last hope , might sink to any depth . He had , moreover , told him to describe to Katerina Ivanovna the scene which had just taken place with his father . It was by now seven o'clock , and it was getting dark as Alyosha entered the very spacious and convenient house in the High Street occupied by Katerina Ivanovna . Alyosha knew that she lived with two aunts . One of them , a woman of little education , was that aunt of her half‐sister Agafya Ivanovna who had looked after her in her father 's house when she came from boarding‐school . The other aunt was a Moscow lady of style and consequence , though in straitened circumstances .