twelve o'clock at night
And all the persons who were promenading that evening in the town park by the Summer theatre describe to this day how just before the fourth act they saw a man with bare feet , a yellow face , and terror-stricken eyes dart out of the theatre and dash along the principal avenue . He was pursued by a man in the costume of Bluebeard , armed with a revolver . What happened later no one saw . All that is known is that Murkin was confined to his bed for a fortnight after his acquaintance with Blistanov , and that to the words `` I am a man in delicate health , rheumatic '' he took to adding , `` I am a wounded man ... '' JOY IT was twelve o'clock at night . Mitya Kuldarov , with excited face and ruffled hair , flew into his parents ' flat , and hurriedly ran through all the rooms . His parents had already gone to bed . His sister was in bed , finishing the last page of a novel .