about ten o'clock
Then there were speeches , many , many glasses of tea , strawberry and cherry jam , biscuits and cigarettes . We were all very , very happy ... . It was arranged on the morning after the feast that I should go again to the cholera village with Marie Ivanovna and Semyonov . Under a morning of a blazing relentless heat , bars of light ruling the sky , we started , the three of us , at about ten o'clock , in the little low dogcart , followed by the kitchen and the boiler . Marie Ivanovna sat next to Semyonov , I facing them . Semyonov was happier than I had ever seen him before . Happiness was not a quality with which I would ever have charged him ; he had seemed to despise it as something too simple and sentimental for any but sentimental fools -- but now this morning -LRB- I had noticed something of the same thing in him the evening before -RRB- he was quite _ simply _ happy , looking younger by many years , the ironical curve of his lip gone , his eyes smiling , his attitude to the world gentle and almost benevolent .