nine o'clock in the evening
Bodlevski , feeling his side pocket to see if the passport was still there , at last left the hall , bewildered , as though under a spell . He felt a kind of gloomy satisfaction ; he was possessed by this satisfaction , by the uncertainty of what Natasha could have thought out , by the question how it would all turn out , and by the conviction that his first crime had already been committed . All these feelings lay like lead on his heart , while in his ears resounded the wild songs of the Cave . It was nine o'clock in the evening . Natasha lit the night lamp in the bedroom of the old Princess Chechevinski , and went silently into the dressing room to prepare the soothing powders which the doctors had prescribed for her , before going to sleep . The old princess was still very weak . Although her periods of unconsciousness had not returned , she was still subject to paroxysms of hysteria .