six o'clock in the morning
Pyotr Stepanovitch pondered a little . `` No , no one will turn traitor , '' he concluded with decision , `` but the group must remain a group and obey , or I 'll ... What a wretched set they are though ! '' He first went home , and carefully , without haste , packed his trunk . At six o'clock in the morning there was a special train from the town . This early morning express only ran once a week , and was only a recent experiment . Though Pyotr Stepanovitch had told the members of the quintet that he was only going to be away for a short time in the neighbourhood , his intentions , as appeared later , were in reality very different . Having finished packing , he settled accounts with his landlady to whom he had previously given notice of his departure , and drove in a cab to Erkel 's lodgings , near the station .