midnight
` If Alexai Dmitritch is not at home , ' he says , ` then I must see Vassily Fedotitch ! I wo n't go away without seeing him . It 's on a very urgent matter . ' We wanted to get rid of him , as we did of that woman , told him Vassily Fedotitch was not at home , but he is determined to see him even if he has to wait until midnight . There he is walking about in the yard . Come and have a look at him through the little window in the corridor . Perhaps you 'll recognise him . ''