one o'clock at night
This early morning express only ran once a week , and was only a recent experiment . Though Pyotr Stepanovitch had told the members of the quintet that he was only going to be away for a short time in the neighbourhood , his intentions , as appeared later , were in reality very different . Having finished packing , he settled accounts with his landlady to whom he had previously given notice of his departure , and drove in a cab to Erkel 's lodgings , near the station . And then just upon one o'clock at night he walked to Kirillov 's , approaching as before by Fedka 's secret way . Pyotr Stepanovitch was in a painful state of mind . Apart from other extremely grave reasons for dissatisfaction -LRB- he was still unable to learn anything of Stavrogin -RRB- , he had , it seems -- for I can not assert it for a fact -- received in the course of that day , probably from Petersburg , secret information of a danger awaiting him in the immediate future . There are , of course , many legends in the town relating to this period ; but if any facts were known , it was only to those immediately concerned .