six o'clock
`` How is it our Sasha 's not back yet ? '' he kept asking his wife , glancing out of window . `` Why , it 's dinner-time ! '' After waiting for the lieutenant till six o'clock , they sat down to dinner . When supper-time came , however , Alexey Ivanovitch was listening to every footstep , to every sound of the door , and kept shrugging his shoulders . `` Strange ! '' he said .