eight o’clock
`` If I could meet him , I might speak to him about that too . '' `` Well , the only thing I can tell you is this , '' said Smerdyakov , as though thinking better of it ; `` I am here as an old friend and neighbor , and it would be odd if I did n't come . On the other hand , Ivan Fyodorovitch sent me first thing this morning to your brother 's lodging in Lake Street , without a letter , but with a message to Dmitri Fyodorovitch to go to dine with him at the restaurant here , in the market‐place . I went , but did n't find Dmitri Fyodorovitch at home , though it was eight o'clock . ` He 's been here , but he is quite gone , ' those were the very words of his landlady . It 's as though there was an understanding between them . Perhaps at this moment he is in the restaurant with Ivan Fyodorovitch , for Ivan Fyodorovitch has not been home to dinner and Fyodor Pavlovitch dined alone an hour ago , and is gone to lie down .