five o'clock
`` I will not allow a splendid fellow to be spoken ill of in my presence ! '' `` Do n't interrupt , Alexandr Daviditch , '' said Von Koren coldly ; `` I am just finishing . Laevsky is by no means a complex organism . Here is his moral skeleton : in the morning , slippers , a bathe , and coffee ; then till dinner-time , slippers , a constitutional , and conversation ; at two o'clock slippers , dinner , and wine ; at five o'clock a bathe , tea and wine , then _ vint _ and lying ; at ten o'clock supper and wine ; and after midnight sleep and _ la femme _ . His existence is confined within this narrow programme like an egg within its shell . Whether he walks or sits , is angry , writes , rejoices , it may all be reduced to wine , cards , slippers , and women . Woman plays a fatal , overwhelming part in his life .