six o’clock
`` Air , I must have air ! '' she exclaimed , turning her face to the wind . She is collecting all her strength , he thought , as they entered the room where the family was waiting for them for dinner . In the afternoon he slept for weariness , and only awoke at twilight , when six o'clock had already struck . He went to find Vera , but Marina told him she had gone to vespers , she did not know whether in the village church on the hill or in the church on the outskirts of the town . He went to the town church first , and after studying the faces of all the old women assembled there , he climbed the hill to the village church . Old people stood in the corners and by the door , and by a pillar in a dark corner knelt Vera , with a veil wrapped round her bowed head .