six in the evening
He gave up the flute long ago , and now plays nothing but the fiddle . As plaintive sounds flow now from his bow , as came once from his flute , but when he tries to repeat what Yakov played , sitting in the doorway , the effect is something so sad and sorrowful that his audience weep , and he himself rolls his eyes and articulates `` Vachhh ! ... '' And this new air was so much liked in the town that the merchants and officials used to be continually sending for Rothschild and making him play it over and over again a dozen times . BETWEEN five and six in the evening . A fairly well-known man of learning -- we will call him simply the man of learning -- is sitting in his study nervously biting his nails . `` It 's positively revolting , '' he says , continually looking at his watch . `` It shows the utmost disrespect for another man 's time and work .