A quarter to one
Please walk in . '' The door was open from the passage into a room that was lighted by two candles . `` If it had not been for your promise that you would certainly come , I should have given up expecting you . '' `` A quarter to one , '' said Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch , looking at his watch , as he went into the room . `` And in this rain ; and such an interesting distance . I 've no clock ... and there are nothing but market-gardens round me ... so that you fall behind the times . Not that I murmur exactly ; for I dare not , I dare not , but only because I 've been devoured with impatience all the week ... to have things settled at last . ''