ten minutes to six
After a careful look round , Pyotr Stepanovitch got up and went out on tiptoe , closed the door , left the candle on the table in the outer room , thought a moment , and resolved not to put it out , reflecting that it could not possibly set fire to anything . Looking once more at the document left on the table , he smiled mechanically and then went out of the house , still for some reason walking on tiptoe . He crept through Fedka 's hole again and carefully replaced the posts after him . Precisely at ten minutes to six Pyotr Stepanovitch and Erkel were walking up and down the platform at the railway-station beside a rather long train . Pyotr Stepanovitch was setting off and Erkel was saying good-bye to him . The luggage was in , and his bag was in the seat he had taken in a second-class carriage . The first bell had rung already ; they were waiting for the second .