midnight
The governor had sent him off to some place out of the town . Lisa played alone and very correct ; Lemm woke up , got excited , twisted a piece of paper into a roll , and conducted . Marya Dmitrievna laughed at first , as she looked at him , later on she went off to bed ; in her own words , Beethoven was too agitating for her nerves . At midnight Lavretsky accompanied Lemm to his lodging and stopped there with him till three o'clock in the morning . Lemm talked a great deal ; his bent figure grew erect , his eyes opened wide and flashed fire ; his hair even stood up on his forehead . It was so long since any one had shown him any sympathy , and Lavretsky was obviously interested in him , he was plying him with sympathetic and attentive questions . This touched the old man ; he ended by showing the visitor his music , played and even sang in a faded voice some extracts from his works , among others the whole of Schiller 's ballad , Fridolin , set by him to music .