about eleven o’clock
However , when they did meet , Colia never had anything particular to tell him , excepting that he was highly dissatisfied with the general and his present condition of mind and behaviour . `` They drag each other about the place , '' he said , `` and get drunk together at the pub close by here , and quarrel in the street on the way home , and embrace one another after it , and do n't seem to part for a moment . '' When the prince pointed out that there was nothing new about that , for that they had always behaved in this manner together , Colia did not know what to say ; in fact he could not explain what it was that specially worried him , just now , about his father . On the morning following the bacchanalian songs and quarrels recorded above , as the prince stepped out of the house at about eleven o'clock , the general suddenly appeared before him , much agitated . `` I have long sought the honour and opportunity of meeting you -- much-esteemed Lef Nicolaievitch , '' he murmured , pressing the prince 's hand very hard , almost painfully so ; `` long -- very long . '' The prince begged him to step in and sit down . `` No -- I will not sit down , -- I am keeping you , I see , -- another time !