six o'clock in the evening
`` I wo n't send it ; I had better take it myself to prevent unnecessary talk . Yes , '' she reflected , as she put the fifteen hundred roubles in her pocket , `` and I 'll have a look at them , and perhaps I can do something for the little girls . '' She felt light-hearted ; she rang the bell and ordered the horses to be brought round . When she got into the sledge it was past six o'clock in the evening . The windows in all the blocks of buildings were brightly lighted up , and that made the huge courtyard seem very dark : at the gates , and at the far end of the yard near the warehouses and the workpeople 's barracks , electric lamps were gleaming . Anna Akimovna disliked and feared those huge dark buildings , warehouses , and barracks where the workmen lived . She had only once been in the main building since her father 's death .