eight o’clock
I do n't lie , anyway . '' And she decided on the spot that next day , Seryozha 's birthday , she would go straight to her husband 's house , bribe or deceive the servants , but at any cost see her son and overturn the hideous deception with which they were encompassing the unhappy child . She went to a toy shop , bought toys and thought over a plan of action . She would go early in the morning at eight o'clock , when Alexey Alexandrovitch would be certain not to be up . She would have money in her hand to give the hall-porter and the footman , so that they should let her in , and not raising her veil , she would say that she had come from Seryozha 's godfather to congratulate him , and that she had been charged to leave the toys at his bedside . She had prepared everything but the words she should say to her son . Often as she had dreamed of it , she could never think of anything .