eight o’clock in the morning
His face now expressed complete , hopeless despair , and he sat mute and passive as though hardly conscious of what was happening . In the meantime they had to finish what they were about . They had immediately to begin examining the witnesses . It was by now eight o'clock in the morning . The lights had been extinguished long ago . Mihail Makarovitch and Kalganov , who had been continually in and out of the room all the while the interrogation had been going on , had now both gone out again . The lawyers , too , looked very tired .