one o’clock
I do not anticipate a refusal , knowing the magnanimity of him with whom it rests . You can not conceive the craving I have to see him , and so can not conceive the gratitude your help will arouse in me . `` Anna '' Everything in this letter exasperated Countess Lidia Ivanovna : its contents and the allusion to magnanimity , and especially its free and easy -- as she considered -- tone . `` Say that there is no answer , '' said Countess Lidia Ivanovna , and immediately opening her blotting-book , she wrote to Alexey Alexandrovitch that she hoped to see him at one o'clock at the levee . `` I must talk with you of a grave and painful subject . There we will arrange where to meet . Best of all at my house , where I will order tea _ as you like it _ .