nine o’clock
`` You see the bad side of everything ... materialist , '' he added contemptuously . `` However , let us talk of other matters . '' And , satisfied with his bad pun , he cheered up . At nine o'clock we went to Princess Ligovski 's together . Passing by Vera 's windows , I saw her looking out . We threw a fleeting glance at each other . She entered the Ligovskis ' drawing-room soon after us .