8 o’clock
But men , grown-up men and women , did not leave off cheating and tormenting themselves and each other . It was not this spring morning men thought sacred and worthy of consideration not the beauty of God 's world , given for a joy to all creatures , this beauty which inclines the heart to peace , to harmony , and to love , but only their own devices for enslaving one another . Thus , in the prison office of the Government town , it was not the fact that men and animals had received the grace and gladness of spring that was considered sacred and important , but that a notice , numbered and with a superscription , had come the day before , ordering that on this 28th day of April , at 9 a.m. , three prisoners at present detained in the prison , a man and two women -LRB- one of these women , as the chief criminal , to be conducted separately -RRB- , had to appear at Court . So now , on the 28th of April , at 8 o'clock , a jailer and soon after him a woman warder with curly grey hair , dressed in a jacket with sleeves trimmed with gold , with a blue-edged belt round her waist , and having a look of suffering on her face , came into the corridor . `` You want Maslova ? '' she asked , coming up to the cell with the jailer who was on duty . The jailer , rattling the iron padlock , opened the door of the cell , from which there came a whiff of air fouler even than that in the corridor , and called out , `` Maslova !