two o'clock
Now tell me about Moscow ... . What is going on in Moscow ? '' After lunch next day -- it was the seventh of January , St. John the Baptist 's Day -- Orlov put on his black dress coat and his decoration to go to visit his father and congratulate him on his name day . He had to go at two o'clock , and it was only half-past one when he had finished dressing . What was he to do for that half-hour ? He walked about the drawing-room , declaiming some congratulatory verses which he had recited as a child to his father and mother . Zinaida Fyodorovna , who was just going out to a dressmaker 's or to the shops , was sitting , listening to him with a smile .