three o'clock
And after school he could not go home nor to the Shelestovs ' , but must go to give a lesson at Wolf 's . This Wolf , a wealthy Jew who had turned Lutheran , did not send his children to the high school , but had them taught at home by the high-school masters , and paid five roubles a lesson . He was bored , bored , bored . At three o'clock he went to Wolf 's and spent there , as it seemed to him , an eternity . He left there at five o'clock , and before seven he had to be at the high school again to a meeting of the masters -- to draw up the plan for the _ viva voce _ examination of the fourth and sixth classes . When late in the evening he left the high school and went to the Shelestovs ' , his heart was beating and his face was flushed . A month before , even a week before , he had , every time that he made up his mind to speak to her , prepared a whole speech , with an introduction and a conclusion .