nine o'clock in the morning
his ugly face ! '' He woke up in a fright , and first of all remembered that a misunderstanding had happened in the evening , and that Meier would certainly not come again . He remembered , too , that he had to pay the interest at the bank , to find husbands for his daughters , that one must have food and drink , and close at hand were illness , old age , unpleasantnesses , that soon it would be winter , and that there was no wood ... . It was past nine o'clock in the morning . Rashevitch slowly dressed , drank his tea and ate two hunks of bread and butter . His daughters did not come down to breakfast ; they did not want to meet him , and that wounded him . He lay down on his sofa in his study , then sat down to his table and began writing a letter to his daughters .