four o'clock
`` And your father and mother and your sisters , are they all well ? '' `` They are quite well , and my father and mother begged me to give their kind regards to you . '' At this moment the servant came in with the samovar , or tea-urn . `` It is four o'clock now ; we dine at five o'clock , when the office is closed . Many dine at one , but my husband likes it when he has done his work , as then he does not need to hurry . '' After drinking a tumbler of tea and eating a flat-cake or two with it , Godfrey went to his room to have a wash after his long journey , and to unpack some of his things . He thought that he should like both Petrovytch and his wife , but that the evenings would be dull if he had to spend them in the house .