ten o’clock
Velchaninoff waited for him half an hour , walking up and down the passage in a state of feverish impatience . Maria Sisevna assured him at last that Pavel Pavlovitch would not come in until the small hours . `` Well , then , I 'll return here before daylight , '' he said , beside himself with desperation , and he went home to his own rooms . What was his amazement , when , on arriving at the gate of his house , he learned from Mavra that `` yesterday 's visitor '' had been waiting for him ever since before ten o'clock . `` He 's had some tea , '' she added , `` and sent me for wine again -- the same wine as yesterday . He gave me the money to buy it with . '' Pavel Pavlovitch had made himself very comfortable .