six o'clock p.m.
He was married , but , like his wife , led a very dissolute life . They did not interfere with each other . On the morning in question he received a note from a Swiss governess , who had lived in his house during the summer , and was now passing on her way from the South to St. Petersburg . She wrote that she would be in town between three and six o'clock p.m. , and wait for him at the `` Hotel Italia . '' He was , therefore , anxious to end his day 's sitting before six o'clock , that he might meet the red-haired Clara Vasilievna . Entering his private chamber , and locking the door behind him , he produced from the lower shelf of a book-case two dumb-bells , made twenty motions upward , forward , sidewise and downward , and three times lowered himself , holding the bells above his head . `` Nothing so refreshes one as a cold-water bath and exercise , '' he thought , feeling with his left hand , on the fourth finger of which was a gold ring , the biceps of his right arm .