nearly three o’clock
Chapter II . Smerdyakov With A Guitar He had no time to lose indeed . Even while he was saying good‐by to Lise , the thought had struck him that he must attempt some stratagem to find his brother Dmitri , who was evidently keeping out of his way . It was getting late , nearly three o'clock . Alyosha 's whole soul turned to the monastery , to his dying saint , but the necessity of seeing Dmitri outweighed everything . The conviction that a great inevitable catastrophe was about to happen grew stronger in Alyosha 's mind with every hour . What that catastrophe was , and what he would say at that moment to his brother , he could perhaps not have said definitely .