nine o’clock in the morning
`` Not less . '' `` Well , our peasants have stood firm . '' `` And have done for our Mitya . '' EPILOGUE Chapter I. Plans For Mitya 's Escape Very early , at nine o'clock in the morning , five days after the trial , Alyosha went to Katerina Ivanovna 's to talk over a matter of great importance to both of them , and to give her a message . She sat and talked to him in the very room in which she had once received Grushenka . In the next room Ivan Fyodorovitch lay unconscious in a high fever . Katerina Ivanovna had immediately after the scene at the trial ordered the sick and unconscious man to be carried to her house , disregarding the inevitable gossip and general disapproval of the public .