five o’clock
He was in a great hurry to `` know all . '' In order to lose no time about finding out what he felt he must know at once , he told the coachman to drive him straight to Trusotsky 's rooms . On the way he changed his mind ; `` let him come to me , himself , '' he thought , `` and meanwhile I can attend to my cursed law business . '' But to-day he really felt that he was too absent to attend to anything at all ; and at five o'clock he set out with the intention of dining . And at this moment , for the first time , an amusing idea struck him . What if he really only hindered his law business by meddling as he did , and hunting his wretched lawyer about the place , when the latter plainly avoided meeting him ? Velchaninoff laughed merrily over this idea .