nine o’clock
Why do you always look down on me and Matvey ? '' said Stepan Arkadyevitch , smiling hardly perceptibly , and addressing his wife . The whole evening Dolly was , as always , a little mocking in her tone to her husband , while Stepan Arkadyevitch was happy and cheerful , but not so as to seem as though , having been forgiven , he had forgotten his offense . At half-past nine o'clock a particularly joyful and pleasant family conversation over the tea-table at the Oblonskys ' was broken up by an apparently simple incident . But this simple incident for some reason struck everyone as strange . Talking about common acquaintances in Petersburg , Anna got up quickly . `` She is in my album , '' she said ; `` and , by the way , I 'll show you my Seryozha , '' she added , with a mother 's smile of pride .