eleven o'clock
Laevsky shared her opinion . He was absolutely ignorant of natural science , and so could never reconcile himself to the authoritative tone and the learned and profound air of the people who devoted themselves to the whiskers of ants and the claws of beetles , and he always felt vexed that these people , relying on these whiskers , claws , and something they called protoplasm -LRB- he always imagined it in the form of an oyster -RRB- , should undertake to decide questions involving the origin and life of man . But in Nadyezhda Fyodorovna 's words he heard a note of falsity , and simply to contradict her he said : `` The point is not the ladybirds , but the deductions made from them . '' It was late , eleven o'clock , when they began to get into the carriages to go home . They took their seats , and the only ones missing were Nadyezhda Fyodorovna and Atchmianov , who were running after one another , laughing , the other side of the stream . `` Make haste , my friends , '' shouted Samoylenko . `` You ought n't to give ladies wine , '' said Von Koren in a low voice .