six o'clock
`` Well , you are a pleasant customer now ! '' Pyotr Stepanovitch reflected gaily as he went out into the street , `` and you will be pleasant this evening too , and that just suits me ; nothing better could be wished , nothing better could be wished ! The Russian God Himself seems helping me . '' He had probably been very busy that day on all sorts of errands and probably with success , which was reflected in the self-satisfied expression of his face when at six o'clock that evening he turned up at Stavrogin 's . But he was not at once admitted : Stavrogin had just locked himself in the study with Mavriky Nikolaevitch . This news instantly made Pyotr Stepanovitch anxious . He seated himself close to the study door to wait for the visitor to go away .