two o'clock
asked Petroff . Kensky shook his head . `` What is the hour ? '' he asked , and they told him that it was two o'clock . `` Sophia Kensky dies at four , '' he said , in such a tone of unconcern that even Malinkoff stared at him . `` It is right that she should die , '' said Kensky , and they marvelled that he , who had risked his life to save one of the class which had persecuted his people for hundreds of years , should speak in so matter-of-fact tones about the fate of his own blood . `` She betrayed her race and her father .