two o'clock in the morning
And was it his fault that , instead of an innocent allowance of wood from the government and an equally innocent Minnchen , a princess of forty summers had raised him to her level ? I know almost for certain that the unmistakable symptoms of the mental condition which brought poor Andrey Antonovitch to a well-known establishment in Switzerland , where , I am told , he is now regaining his energies , were first apparent on that fatal morning . But once we admit that unmistakable signs of something were visible that morning , it may well be allowed that similar symptoms may have been evident the day before , though not so clearly . I happen to know from the most private sources -LRB- well , you may assume that Yulia Mihailovna later on , not in triumph but _ almost _ in remorse -- for a woman is incapable of _ complete _ remorse -- revealed part of it to me herself -RRB- that Andrey Antonovitch had gone into his wife 's room in the middle of the previous night , past two o'clock in the morning , had waked her up , and had insisted on her listening to his `` ultimatum . '' He demanded it so insistently that she was obliged to get up from her bed in indignation and curl-papers , and , sitting down on a couch , she had to listen , though with sarcastic disdain . Only then she grasped for the first time how far gone her Andrey Antonovitch was , and was secretly horrified . She ought to have thought what she was about and have been softened , but she concealed her horror and was more obstinate than ever .