four o'clock at night
`` H 'm , '' he said as though puzzled , `` the very fact that you feel unwell shows you ought to apply to a doctor , not a chemist . '' `` But I have been to the doctors already . I could not ring them up . '' `` H 'm ... you do n't regard us chemists as human beings , and disturb our rest even at four o'clock at night , though every dog , every cat , can rest in peace ... . You do n't try to understand anything , and to your thinking we are not people and our nerves are like cords . '' Strizhin listened to the chemist , heaved a sigh , and went home . `` So I am fated to die , '' he thought .