three o’clock
`` Or has she been very much irritated today ? It 's really ludicrous ; her object is doing good ; she a Christian , yet she 's always angry ; and she always has enemies , and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good . '' After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another friend came , the wife of a chief secretary , who told her all the news of the town . At three o'clock she too went away , promising to come to dinner . Alexey Alexandrovitch was at the ministry . Anna , left alone , spent the time till dinner in assisting at her son 's dinner -LRB- he dined apart from his parents -RRB- and in putting her things in order , and in reading and answering the notes and letters which had accumulated on her table . The feeling of causeless shame , which she had felt on the journey , and her excitement , too , had completely vanished .