eleven o'clock in the evening
Lastly , with a nod , he walked away with a pleased expression on his face . The conversation had been carried on in execrable French . Today has been a day of folly , stupidity , and ineptness . The time is now eleven o'clock in the evening , and I am sitting in my room and thinking . It all began , this morning , with my being forced to go and play roulette for Polina Alexandrovna . When she handed me over her store of six hundred gulden I exacted two conditions -- namely , that I should not go halves with her in her winnings , if any -LRB- that is to say , I should not take anything for myself -RRB- , and that she should explain to me , that same evening , why it was so necessary for her to win , and how much was the sum which she needed . For , I could not suppose that she was doing all this merely for the sake of money .