About two o'clock
The general impression was in his favour . `` He may be rather absurd , and of course he is a nonsensical fellow , yet still he is not responsible for Yulia Mihailovna 's foolishness . On the contrary , it appears that he tried to stop her . '' About two o'clock the news suddenly came that Stavrogin , about whom there was so much talk , had suddenly left for Petersburg by the midday train . This interested people immensely ; many of them frowned . Pyotr Stepanovitch was so much struck that I was told he turned quite pale and cried out strangely , `` Why , how could they have let him go ? '' He hurried away from Gaganov 's forthwith , yet he was seen in two or three other houses .