four o'clock in the morning
The conversation was cut short at this point . Both the young men went away immediately after supper . They were pursued by a nervously malicious , but somewhat faint-hearted laugh from Madame Kukshin ; her vanity had been deeply wounded by neither of them having paid any attention to her . She stayed later than any one at the ball , and at four o'clock in the morning she was dancing a polka-mazurka with Sitnikov in the Parisian style . This edifying spectacle was the final event of the Governor 's ball . ` Let 's see what species of mammalia this specimen belongs to , ' Bazarov said to Arkady the following day , as they mounted the staircase of the hotel in which Madame Odintsov was staying . ` I scent out something wrong here . '