seven o’clock
Reluctantly and sadly she gave in at last . Petrushka went to the river , and Tatiana watched him go with a heavy heart . She felt quite certain some disaster was about to happen . At seven o'clock Petrushka had not yet returned , and he did not return that night . The next morning the carpenter and two others went to the river to look for him . They found his body in the shallow water , entangled in the ropes of the raft he had made . He had been drowned , no doubt , in setting the raft straight .