six o’clock
Alyosha had a furnished room in the house of some working people . Ivan lived some distance from him . He had taken a roomy and fairly comfortable lodge attached to a fine house that belonged to a well‐to‐do lady , the widow of an official . But his only attendant was a deaf and rheumatic old crone who went to bed at six o'clock every evening and got up at six in the morning . Ivan had become remarkably indifferent to his comforts of late , and very fond of being alone . He did everything for himself in the one room he lived in , and rarely entered any of the other rooms in his abode . He reached the gate of the house and had his hand on the bell , when he suddenly stopped .